318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

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.

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

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?