Quotes by : Edward Gorey

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought....

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is....

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

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....

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies....

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of....

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really....