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Quotes by Maurice Sendak
- I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
- I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
- I don't need faith.
- I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
- I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
- I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
- 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.
- I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
- 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.
- I'm not afraid of death.
- I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
- In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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