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. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

) He was interviewed on Tribute To Edward Gorey an hour-long community Public-access television cable show produced by artist and friend Joyce Kenney. He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah and then attended Harvard University beginning in 1946 and graduating in the class of 1950 where he studied French and roomed with poet Frank O'Hara. Gorey attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W.

John Gorey (February 22 1925 – April 15 2000) was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.