I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

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.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

All I know is "make a joyful noise unto the Lord", and I do that whatever opportunity I get.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

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