I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about… — 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
