821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.