My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.