She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.