I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is FEAR. Inside all of us is ADVENTURE. Inside all of us… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!” And Max said,… — 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
“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!” — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my… — 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
