Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.