Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

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.

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

They left Puonvangi at the 303rd in the company of a riotous party of Binlisi conventioneers. The Birilisi were an avian species and much given to excessive narcoticism

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.