Zitat des Tages von John Hodgman:
Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.
A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
Not as many people watch 'Doctor Who' as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It's a much larger culture, in the specific sense.
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
I am not an Internet superstar.
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
