#eat

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#buff #classical #classical music #designer #great

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#being #child #creature #escape #i

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#child #childhood #complicated #crazy #creature

My work is not great, but it's respectable. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#respectable #work

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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#gingrich #great #gross #hard #him

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#bore #death #distinctions #fine #fine art

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#birthday #day #eternity #fear #last

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#another #fault #find #give #great