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. Edward Gorey More Quotes by Edward Gorey More Quotes From Edward Gorey 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 having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating. Edward Gorey boring theory art 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. Edward Gorey artist identity doe I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones. Edward Gorey librarian mets crazy 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. Edward Gorey literal intention today 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. Edward Gorey rain snow thinking To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey height folly would-be Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. Edward Gorey going-away important speak I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off. Edward Gorey inconsequential trails Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable. Edward Gorey indescribable ifs would-be All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important. Edward Gorey important If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. Edward Gorey no-point nonsense awful Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you. Edward Gorey nice vices hurt Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards. Edward Gorey distance party twilight I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Edward Gorey everyday writing thinking Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one Edward Gorey interviewers regret 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. Edward Gorey phases reading book Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way. Edward Gorey way fall I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head. Edward Gorey possibility damage may I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Edward Gorey contrary despite evidence There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away. Edward Gorey stopping black firsts
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