And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.


Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004):

Maurice Sendak Quotes

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible...

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible...

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible...

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible...