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

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.

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

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

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