She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

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.

Faith is a kind of spiritual magnet that you polarize.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

We must strive to become good ancestors.