I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.