“The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.”

“The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.”

“Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.”

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”

“There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.”