
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
As quoted in "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, in The New York Times (8 November 1987) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DC103CF93BA35752C1A961948260&scp=2&sq=Sendak+protecting&st=nyt
Context: Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
“Difference is the one thing that we all have in common.”
McKenna Grace [citation needed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oIF-ggK5U
2011 - 2015
“All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”
ibid., chap. 30
Why do I need Jesus? Jesus reveals God to us. p. 11
Jesus Our Destiny
Manuel, in Ch. XXXIX : The Passing of Manuel
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.