What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. – Maurice Sendak
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 didnt want to be a child. – Maurice Sendak
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. Theres a cruelty to childhood, theres an anger. – Maurice Sendak
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And theres no doubt about that. We just dont like to think about it. Certainly the men dont like to think about it. – Maurice Sendak
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words climate change in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. – Jeff Goodell