I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening -… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The matches were a little 'he loves me, he loves me not,' but then I saw right on the box that I had twenty-four,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
