There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

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

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

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.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.