To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

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.

Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.