We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.

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.

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!” ― Bill Murray character in Cadyshack

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.