Making you happy isn't making me happy.

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.