John Hodgman Quotes

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

I'm going to disappear again.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.

I want to be invisible.

My day is spent hiding from people.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.