We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

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