I'm not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? - Maurice Sendak

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work — it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me — or that I write better, no. It's — and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.

There must be more to life than having everything.

But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!