Then of course there is no mention about escrow. No use talking about it anyway. Escrow is useless when you trade your coins for PayPal. What can that trusted escrow do when you send the coins and he later tells PayPal to reverse the payment? No wonder escrow was left out of the whole picture.
All those smiley faces make me think this is one big trap. Don't fall into it.
He's accepting PayPal for his bitcoin, judging from what he said in the post between ours.
In which case it would be suitable to advise you, OP, against accepting PayPal from newbies and anyone without sufficient reputation.