Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

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.

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

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

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

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.