Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

Hard work is a necessity of today in order to live a great life tomorrow.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

The Beatles said 'all you need is love,' then they broke up.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Weird like Murdock, thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face but I'm wild like B.A.

It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.