318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him – and it was still hot.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can’t tell your parents that.

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson – she’s probably the top – Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

We’ve educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I’ve gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

I don’t believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king.

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.