The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

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.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.

Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Game Boy is something that I would like to make something for.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.