What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Door money. It’s a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one’s existence.

You lose a couple of pounds and get a guy good and drunk, you could have a hell of a good time even if you are not smart.

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back?

To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.

When you have confidence, you can do anything.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life