“Baseball's owners must be the only U. S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.”

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”

“The U. S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U. S. citizen because our "leaders" can't say no!”

“I have never felt like a second-class citizen. I consider myself a U. S. citizen. I appreciate and treasure my U. S. citizenship. I would never renounce or consider losing that citizenship. I want my children and their children to always have it.”

“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”

“Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -" "Warlocks?" Simon said.”

“USA valiant effort, but no hard luck story. Better team won. Last 16 is about as good as U. S. are, but well respected team now.”

“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.”

“We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.”

“Just as there are inputs which are supplied by the owner of a business, and whose value therefore is a "virtual," not an actual, expense, so there can be outputs which are consumed by the owner of a business, and whose value therefore forms.”