May 12, 2012
“I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
Sendak’s thoughts on eBooks, shared with the Guardian’s Emma Brockes in 2011.
May 12, 2012
“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something, not didactic things, but passionate things.”
As told to The New York Times’ Sarah Lyall in 1993
May 12, 2012
“There is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him that it’s hard to take him seriously”
On Newt Gingrich, as told to Stephen Colbert on “The Colbert Report,” January 2012.