Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.