Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.