I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

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

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

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.

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

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.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.