Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.