Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.

I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.