No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.