Edward Gorey Quotes
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I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
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Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.
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If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.
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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 - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.
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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 the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
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The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.
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More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
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Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
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All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.
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Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.
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Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
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Books, Cats, Life is Good.
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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
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I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.
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If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
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I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
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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.
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I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
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It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.
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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.
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My favorite journey is looking out the window.
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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.
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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.
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I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
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I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
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God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.
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Only art means anything.
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The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.
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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
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