What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

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.

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.