For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident.