It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident.

I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.