Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.

And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.