It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

It's hard when you're missing your family, " Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

Indoctrination is dangerous.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Skull and Bones" A secret society of spoiled twits whose apparent purpose in life is littering the landscape with as many as possible.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.