Hello, freaky peoples!

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

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.