If You Don't Know Where You're Going,

I Don't Think Ordinary Things Are Very Interesting, So I Try To Imagine A World That Is Less Ordinary.

I'm Not A Perfectionist. I'm Just Very Observant.

The Dick, Jane, And Spot Primers Have Gone To That Bookshelf In The Sky. I Have, In Some Ways, A Tender Feeling Toward Them, So I Think It's For The Best.

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 Storys Narrator, That I Was Remembering Something, Not Making It Up.

I Pore Over Every Word On The Cereal Box At Breakfast, Often More Than Once. You Can Ask Me Anything About Shredded Wheat.