If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

I’m happier than a pig eating bacon!

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.