I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.