I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit

Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.

Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you read more

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise

I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58.

I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58.

The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are read more

The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are lots of positives.

Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political read more

Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political chaos.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going read more

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 story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.