The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.