The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

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

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

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

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