3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak 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.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak 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.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak 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.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak 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.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don’t know. I don’t know. I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can’t tell your parents that.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
