My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

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.

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.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.