To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

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

Making you happy isn't making me happy.