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

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

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.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

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

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.