“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it goaway.”

“I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.”

“Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be”

“This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed.”

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”

“freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”