The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

People who never get carried away should be.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.