More From Maurice Sendak
- "As a kid, all I thought about was death."
- "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."
- "Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk."
More In Great
- "I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I’m glad that I did it."― Tom Glazer
- "I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years."― Brian Eno
- "If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."― Lucy Larcom