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

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

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

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.

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 is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.