I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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

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.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

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.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer