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

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

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

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

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.

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

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

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

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap

I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.