Edward Gorey

“It's well known that I'm a junkaholic. I'm fascinated by junk.”

“If you're doing nonsense, it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.”

“I am a person before I am an artist. I was a person before I was a child.”

“I don't suffer from my insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.”

“When people are finding meaning in things, my job is to make things more meaningless.”

“To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.”

“I write about everyday life.”

“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.”

“Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable.”

“All my life I've been a mess. But being a mess has meant that I am easy to amuse.”

“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.”

“I've always said my favorite work is my next one.”

“I have a low threshold of boredom.”