I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

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.

The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.

I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.

We tend to see what we are looking for.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.