Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

- Maurice Sendak

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

- Maurice Sendak

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

- Maurice Sendak

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

- Maurice Sendak

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

- Maurice Sendak

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

- Maurice Sendak

And the walls became the world all around.

- Maurice Sendak

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

- Maurice Sendak

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

- Maurice Sendak