Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.