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

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

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

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

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.