Quotes by : Maurice Sendak

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

There must be more to life than having everything.

[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability....

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk....

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....

Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different....