"In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger."
― Maurice Sendak
Topic(s):
Anger
More From Maurice Sendak
- "What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is."
- "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."
- "My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."
More In Anger
- "Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."― Indira Gandhi
- "The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough."― Bede Jarrett
- "Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."― John Dryden