All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.