A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.