Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

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.

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

I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.