My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

The only way to practicalize your love for God is by helping and loving others

If I don't buy it, I can't sell it.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.