“I'd do a lot of things to protect you.”

“I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No. 1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.”

“If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.”

“When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.”

“If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.”

“You can do a few things superbly well, or a lot of things averagely well.”

“I'd like to protect children, too, but… is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. […] They've midwived a lot of good ideas… lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids. […] I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”