I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

I remember my rookie hazing. It wasnt fun.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

I'm definitely not a "Fast and a Furious" guy.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.