Aaron Persky who is the judge who really I think it's fair to say there is a mob seeking to recall him because of what's perceived as a too-lenient sentence in a sexual assault case.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.

When you find the one, when you share the spark of kismet, then it becomes inconceivable to walk through life with anyone else.

The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.