Edward Gorey Quotes

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

… a small caliber man.

I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

I really don't think I have anything special to say.

I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.

I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog.

My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.