In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. -Maurice Sendak Anger
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. -Maurice Sendak Trust
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. -Maurice Sendak Alone
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. -Maurice Sendak Happiness
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. -Maurice Sendak Humor
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. -Maurice Sendak Music
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. -Maurice Sendak Mom
