You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

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

There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.