Maurice Sendak
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
Kids lead a very private life.
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.
I feel extremely vulnerable.
I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
Kids are so shrewd.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.
My being gay was something of not great interest to me.
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.
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
I was miserable as a kid.
I don't need faith.
I'm not a religious person.
I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
I'm not afraid of death.
A book is a book is a book.
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.
I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
I have a good life.
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
I'm totally crazy, I know that.
It's no fun being lonely.
I'm a lucky buck.
I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
My work is not great, but it's respectable.
As a kid, all I thought about was death.
I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.