I Would Infinitely Prefer A Daughter.

When You Hide Another Story In A Story, That’s The Story I Am Telling The Children.

If You're Making It Up, Make It Up Good. And Then Believe In What You Made Up.

I Feel It In Me Like A Woman Having A Baby, All That Life Churning Inside Me. I Feel It Every Day; It Moves, Stretches, Yawns. It's Getting Ready To Be Born. It Knows Exactly What It Is.

I've Always Loved Pigs: The Shape Of Them, The Look Of Them, And The Fact That They Are So Intelligent.

I Had Lost My Sister Recently, Too, Which Meant That My Whole Family Was Gone. I Was The Baby Of The Family. There Were Five Sendaks And There Were Five Wild Things, And Now There's Only One Sendak, And He's About To Bite The Dust, Too! Life, As I Said Before, Was Very Difficult At That Time And So It Was Natural That There Would Be A Change In The Look Of Things. Also, I Was Very Impressed With My Own Strength In Doing This Under The Circumstances In Which I Was Living.