I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

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

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.

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

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.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.