The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

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.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.