318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

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

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.