She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

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.

I do believe in shooting the messenger.You know why? Because it sends a message.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

In memory Venice is always magic.

Don't judge my problems when you don't know my purpose. I'm only struggling now so I can pull you through later.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.