I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

Women find little pleasure in the society of women.

I’d rather have you in my life even as a brother than not at all—

I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.