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

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.

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.

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress]

The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?

All the Armes of England will not arme feare.

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

Absence of occupation is not rest.