The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Playing the victim is like surrendering to self-imprisonment.

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

All Thing Serve the Beam

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.