None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.

In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.

I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.