Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.