Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

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

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

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.