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

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 may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise.

Wrapped in a mother’s love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child.

She is a wiry blanched creature with no beauty. Her expression reminds him of a crumpled letter – there is both sadness and anger in it.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].