There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

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

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