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

My favorite journey is looking out the window..

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book..

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..

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like..

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware..

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

Only art means anything..

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - ….

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things..

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

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

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you..

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

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

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at t….

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you..

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good ha….

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense….

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

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things..