I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

Tomorrow will meet those who do not prepare for it as a surprise...when talking with my son, 18th April, 2016

You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Losing my virginity was very boring.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.