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

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.

You've got a lot to say for the one who walked away.

Your Life can easily flow and be filled with joy. Embrace the possibilities!

a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.

I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.