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

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.

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.

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.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.

Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.