Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.
Daniel HandlerWhen do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?
Daniel HandlerAll his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
Daniel HandlerI wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."
Daniel Handler