Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.

A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

Honestly, my goals shift and change, as I move along.