821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

The more I protest that I’m not Lemony Snicket, and that I’m Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

The Long Goodbye’ is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for ‘All The Wrong Questions’.

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.

What you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.

If you open this you’ll see it’s empty, and you’ll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me – I can see it – another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

This is complicated,” you said, back on the napkin, and then looked at me. You wanted to pry me open, I could see it, drag me across our boundaries so we could feast together in secret from the rest of the world. “But,” you said, “no, not but. I love you.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible...

I always think it’s silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there’s not any risk involved.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution – even if it’s right in front of your nose.