The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

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.

Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind played tricks on itself when it relied exclusively on what it saw. There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a game