If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere read more

If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere else, ... Eventually, we are going to lose that population.

I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder read more

I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder dry.

I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that read more

I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.

This is a program that's working.

This is a program that's working.

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.

But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people.

But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people.

That was scary when the ball was in the air. He almost made it. We got lucky. Virginia has a read more

That was scary when the ball was in the air. He almost made it. We got lucky. Virginia has a great team, but we found a way to win the game.

Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today.

Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today.

[In the
ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam
Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me read more

[In the
ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam
Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were
martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].