There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

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.

A man without a wife is like a house without a roof.” - Abdulazeez Henry Musa.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.