Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going read more

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus.

I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus.

We're focusing on particular works — films, books, pieces of music, architecture — that deserve the name 'icon' and have read more

We're focusing on particular works — films, books, pieces of music, architecture — that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

That really stuck in my head. He's right; nobody has reason to be talking. Nobody's been there yet.

That really stuck in my head. He's right; nobody has reason to be talking. Nobody's been there yet.

We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a read more

We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a period of months.

I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that read more

I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that the lily pads are getting to be too much.

When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they read more

When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.