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

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

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

In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.

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.