Ben Nicholson

“It’s no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it’s sanctimony.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“We are more politically fanatical than ever before, more religiously zealous, more rigid in our thinking, less capable of empathy. The way we see the world is totalizing and unbreakable. We are completely avoiding the problems that diversity and worldwide communication imply. Thus, nobody cares about antique ideas like true or false.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you’d crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix