"There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books." ― Maurice Sendak Topic(s): Music More From Maurice Sendak "My work is not great, but it’s respectable." "If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up." "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." More In Music "Music is always a commentary on society."― Frank Zappa "If you like my music, great, and if you don’t, whatever. I’m going to keep making it either way."― Katy Perry "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."― Norman Cousins