Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.

Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.

When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.