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

Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

We're animals. We're violent.

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

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

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.