The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

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