All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

The only thing I can control is how well I pitch.

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

What you give with love stays with you for a lifetime.

It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it.

Memory may be pig-headed and want us to follow its whims along the blips and dips of our time line. ( "All the words he always wanted to tell her.")

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.