No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

Making you happy isn't making me happy.

I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.