“I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.”
Hope
“As a kid, all I thought about was death.”
DeathAll Quotes by Maurice Sendak
“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”
Humor“I don't need faith.”
Faith“I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.”
Future“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 art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.”
Art“What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.”
Respect“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.”
Anger“I'm not afraid of death.”
Death“As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.”
Death“As a kid, all I thought about was death.”
Death“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”
Happiness“There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.”
Music“To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.”
Trust“I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.”
Future“When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.”
Death“I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.”
Experience“Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.”
Business“The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.”
Death“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”
Happiness“Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.”
Dad