If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.