That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

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.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

It is not really hard to understand when women say that they like 'tall, dark and handsome' men..They simply mean a tall man with dark fantasies and handsome salary..

God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing

England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.