I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.