I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire trouble. I… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?" "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
