The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

Everybody has a theory.

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

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

And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.