“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes,...”

“Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.”

“It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.”

“Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.”