I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

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.

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

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

An award does not change the quality of a book.

Anyone can exist. Most fools do. It takes guts to truly Live. -RVM

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd A True Friend is as great as True Friendship. Quote by Sharvani Akula

A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.

One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?