A side of Maurice Sendak you haven't seen before, which will make you love him even more than before

So I was curious about Maurice Sendak's personal history because I saw the world's funniest interview with him on the Colbert Report, and this lead me to this article on Mental Floss 

My favorite part of the piece are the quotes from Sendak himself. Good God, he's amazing. It just makes me love him even more. 

“A woman came up to me the other day and said, ‘You’re the kiddie-book man!’ I wanted to kill her.” 

• On Max as an adult: “Well, he’s in therapy forever. He has to wear a straitjacket when he’s with his therapist."

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• On parents who think the Wild Things movie is too scary for children: “I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate."

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• “I think it’s unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, happy-clouded childhood for anybody.”

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• "I refuse to lie to children."

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• "I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it."

November 23, 2013 - 9:55am

Maurice Sendak on the Colbert Report

If you didn't like Maurice Sendak before (which, frankly is just inconceivable - what, you dont like the Beatles, either? What are you, cold-blooded?), watch this clip of Maurice Sendak on the Colbert Report and your mind will be changed.

I was already a big Sendak fan. As much as I like Where the Wild Things -- and I still have my childhood copy -- I really get into his other stuff, like Outside Over There (there's a whole blog post I need to write about reading that wacko book to Sec's pre-K class) and We're All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy. That shit is craaaaaazy. You really feel like you should be on mind-altering drugs to fully get what Sendak's going for - either that, or be a kid. Lately, I've read a bunch of interviews with him and now that he's in his eighties and entered the who-gives-a-crap-what-people-think-i'm gonna-let-it-all-hang-out stage of life, he's an absolute hoot, a bona-fide character. That character interacting with Steven Colbert - priceless.

Happy Tuesday!