I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

Beauty has its own vices.

If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

Free time keeps me going.

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

We’re multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.