318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

"The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?"

"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."