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

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.

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."

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!