Quotes by Maurice Sendak

I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.

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.

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

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

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

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead.

I don’t need faith.

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.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

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.