American - Artist | June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
Maurice Sendak
TroubleWantThingsAgainstUs
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
MeChristianNobodyOkayUpPark
I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
ConfidenceMyselfNeverMuch
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.
ParentsDownKnowEverythingTell
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
TruthHopeChildrenMyselfYouTell
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
I AmPersonRegretsReligiousNor
I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
DaughterWouldPreferInfinitely
Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.
YouKnowingMeanWithoutThings
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.
WomenMenThinkDoubtComplicated
My being gay was something of not great interest to me.
GreatMeGayInterestSomething
Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.
DisappointmentFindingGayOutOlder
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
FatherHumorWittyIronyAlways
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