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

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

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.

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

Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

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.