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

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

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.

The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.

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