Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.