Quote

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.