who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.