Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

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.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.