Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, ver… - Daniel Handler

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' — is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.