Spike Jonze: Do you have any advice for young people?
Maurice Sendak: Quit this life as soon as possible. Get out, get out!
My brain just flew out. I watched a documentary on Maurice Sendak and he was surprisingly blunt. He woke up all my sleeping bones that I didn't knew existed. Here was a gay guy who knew what he wanted to do and he wanted to do more, only there is no time. And here I am, unable to figure out what I wanted to do and I'm not sitting down and taking as much time to really think about it.
He is odd. Very odd. But I could easily relate to the isolation he puts himself in when he talks about his family and where he is now (he's missing a lot of people).
"I am not earth shatteringly important."
"We will all die. We will just become a memory."
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