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

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.

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.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.