The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.