"Inside all of us is a Wild Thing"
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"There must be more to life than having everything."
— Maurice Sendak

"Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so."
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. "
— Maurice Sendak

"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all."
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot"
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

""There must be more to life than having everything.""
— Maurice Sendak

"You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."
— Maurice Sendak

"'I'm going to eat you up!' - Max"
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice."
— Maurice Sendak (Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months)

"then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things"
— Maurice Sendak

"Each month is gay,
Each season nice,
When eating
Chicken soup
With rice"
— Maurice Sendak (Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months)

"The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead."
— Maurice Sendak

""And now," cried Max, "Let the wild rumpus start!""
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

""Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so!" "
— Maurice Sendak

"http://www.avclub.com/articles/tell-them..."
— Maurice Sendak