It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

Sometimes words are not enough.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.