Interviewer: What Is Your Greatest Regret? Gorey:

I Have Given Up Considering Happiness As Relevant.

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.

Not Everything In Life Can Be Interpreted Metaphorically; That's Because Things Fall Out On The Way.

Books, Cats, Life Is Good.

Some Tiny Creature, Mad With Wrath, Is Coming Nearer On The Path.