The best Quotes from Where the Wild Things Are

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

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.

There must be more to life than having everything.

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

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

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

The beginning is always dark.

Once there was a boy. He was, let us say, something like fourteen years old; long and loose jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief.

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.