There Must Be Something To Think About

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.

I've Always Thought Of The Book As A Visual Art Form, And It Should Represent A Single Artistic Idea, Which It Does If You Write Your Own Material.

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 Take My Ideas From My Experiences.

The Inclination To Believe In The Fantastic May Strike Some As A Failure In Logic, Or Gullibility, But It’s Really A Gift. A World That Might Have Bigfoot And The Loch Ness Monster Is Clearly Superior To One That Definitely Does Not.