Quotes from Edward Gorey

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.