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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I can make dressing – or stuffing. Y’all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It’s really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn’t do it.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.