I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

You can't believe everything you read.

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

How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.