That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

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's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.

In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.