It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.