"Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?"

"George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?"

"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it."

"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet."

"The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment."

"I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental."

"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong."

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."

"The people's good is the highest law."

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."

"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos."