One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

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

People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

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

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.