If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

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.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

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.

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.