Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And I understand that when you used to go around to talk to your very young fans, you would appear as Lemony Snicket's representative or agent.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

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

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.