Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level.
I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.
Real men know how to move as real men. Real men won't allow themselves to be disrespected. Real men aren't punks.
Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted - not so much.
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
Banks should decide on dividend increases and share buybacks after receiving the results of stress tests, when they know how much capital regulators wish them to hold.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Do not judge other moms on how they raise their children.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
