Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

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

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.