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

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

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.'