And in 2008, shortly after his 80 th birthday, Sendak told the New York Times, “I hate people,” adding that he would rather spend time with his dog Herman.
Well, there you go
If the Wikipedia is half right, sounds like he grew up in a dysfunctional extended family, always at each others’ throats figuratively speaking. And he forever bore a grudge. It would turn any ordinary liberal into a raving moonbat.