63 Quotes by Nathan Hill

If you keep pestering the politician, you look like a pest, and America does not tune in to watch pests. It's a chilling thought, that politicians have learned to manipulate the television medium better than the television professionals themselves. When old Cronkite first realized this was happening he imagined the kinds of people who would become politicians in the future. And he shuddered with fear.

It’s because a lighthouse is two-faced, and this is how she feels each time she visits. A lighthouse is both an invitation and a warning. A lighthouse says Welcome home. But next to that, right after that, it also says Danger.

a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.

He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.

There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure.

What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets.

It's the great flax of journalism: The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is. We have follow the same trajectory as the stock market---sustained and unstoppable growth.

But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.

The only people who get famous on their own are serial killers. Everyone else needs people like me.