The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.

There must be something to think about at the end.