Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

Thou fail to perceive mineself!

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'