We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

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.

What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

I stand in awe of my body.

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

I can make men follow me to hell.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback.