I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.