It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
“The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.”
“I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.”