To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

I hate that word dysfunction.

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.