One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.