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.

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?

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.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water

She's in the Catskill, " Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. "

Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

It’s one thing to go into a fight knowing you’ll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.

The time has come for nations to sell their patriotism and buy wisdom.

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

If you don’t have fun, it’s hard to do your best. It’s not going to be enjoyable.