I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams." "Like drool?

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

Most people under the influence of the wrong and common belief which says that the sense of man’s life is to grow a tree, build a house and bring up a son

We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart." Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

Being a geek is extremely liberating

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.