Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

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.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.