The worst thing about religion was religious people.

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.

Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.

I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.

It ain't over 'til it's over.-Yogi Berra

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.