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

My favorite journey is looking out the window..

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..

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

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

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 - ….

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

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

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

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….

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

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..

Only art means anything..

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

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..

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….