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

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

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

Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul.

If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow

everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.