Maurice Sendak

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of…

I’m not afraid of death…

I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical…

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death…

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can’t tell your parents…

To get a child’s trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing…

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don’t know. I don’t know…

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be…

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books…

I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t…

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no…

I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a…

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power…

Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of…

I think people should be given a test much like driver’s tests as to whether…