Top 104 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.