Let the wild rumpus start!
I’ll eat you up I love you so.
I said anything I wanted because I don’t believe in children I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe that there’s a demarcation. ‘Oh you mustn’t tell them that. You mustn’t tell them that.’ You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it’s true. If it’s true you tell them.
Sendak is in search of what he calls a “yummy death”. William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. “A happy death,” says Sendak. “It can be done.” He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. “If you’re William Blake and totally crazy.
I’ll eat you up!
And the walls became the world all around.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
There must be more to life than having everything.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
I never set out to write books for children. I don’t have a feeling that I’m gonna save children or my life is devoted.
Kids don’t know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them.