Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.