Edward Gorey Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

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