It is sometimes hard to be a family.
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."...
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best...
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of th...
He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
But the wild things cried, Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
As a kid, all I thought about was death.
I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993)
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.