I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.