If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.

Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

Interesting things happen in the dark . . . sometimes.

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.