The end of 'The End' is the best place to begin 'The End', because if you read 'The End' from the beginning of the beginning of 'The End' to the end of the end of 'The End', you will arrive at the end.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

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

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.