We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.