But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

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

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.