I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

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.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

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.

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