This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

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

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.