I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.

It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?

No problem. Just drop it back off before you go, " he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.

We should go swimming, " Anna says, out of the blue.

If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.

What's life without whims?

If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.