Edward Gorey

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

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

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 having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

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.