It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug