LinksDienstag, Mai 8, 2012, 22:49 - UNBEIRRBARE ZUNEIGUNG
... How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there.” 
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” - Maurice Sendak
"I refuse to lie to children, I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence. When you hide another story in the story, that’s the story that I am telling the children." — Maurice Sendak
Links: [NYT] - [nja] - [tateShot] - ... und schliesslich: [Das Drama des Unbewussten]