Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.