Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.