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.

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

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.

Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I’d just been born?

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.