I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

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.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

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

There must be more to life than having everything.

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.