Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I hate people.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I'm a lucky buck.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

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.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera.

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?