One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

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.

It took me thirty years to find myself, I had little wealth, But I had my health

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

I love life and people, so I guess I want to help anyone I can live the fullest, most wonderful life possible.