If there's a runner on third with less than two outs, I clearly do not want to strike out.

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'