318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

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

If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.

I don't know what to make of it, exactly, but I am so for it, ... I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie, now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made.

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

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

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.