It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety;… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of… — 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
