I certainly dont spell it out. But they have to know its possible thin — Maurice Sendak

"There must be more to life than having everything!"

"An illustrator in my own mind — and this is not a truth of any kind — is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that’s what you hold on to, and that’s what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there."

"I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when were not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do."

"Hitler made a film about "Hitler gives a camp to the Jews". And they look all shiny. And theyre drawing. And theyre playing volleyball. And people are dancing. And people are having a wonderful time. And everybody fell for it."

"I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mothers cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, shed make me eat."

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!""