Daniel Handler

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

I can cook anything.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.