That's always where the love goes, with somebody else away from me. - Daniel Handler

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.

The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.