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

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

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.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...

Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving...' --Alema Rar

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.