John Hodgman

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.