Krutika Mahendru

“Absolutely. Mine is propaganda, yours is true. If you’re going to be an artist, you have to understand this. Don’t be afraid of truth, Jack, even if it makes you a little strange.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“meaning effect,” a term she much preferred to “placebo effect.” Because to say that these effects arose from placebo implied that they arose from nothing—for that’s what placebo traditionally was, an inert substance, literally and intentionally useless—when in fact the placebo effect was elicited by the strong sense of significance and substance surrounding the placebo itself: the context, story, ritual, metaphor, and beliefs associated with the placebo. The placebo effect was, in fact, the brain’s response to finding meaning.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“The problem is, it’s too big and too uniform,” she said. “Painting it, it’s hard to create distance, separation, depth. The problem is its immensity, plus its monotony. Which, come to think of it, is also the problem with most marriages.” “What?” “Immensity plus monotony. That’s marriage in a nutshell.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“Where’s the best place to hide a dead body? On the second page of search results.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness