There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

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.

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.

And by the way, if she constantly leaving you messages that she's in another castle...she's just not that into you. Move on.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

If the opportunity comes about that's right and it can be a smooth thing, yeah sure. But for the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release.

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.