"There are a lot of briefs, and people doing a lot of talking. I mean, it’s law."

Clarence Thomas said about the work of the Supreme Court.

He also said:

Even the most boring cases are fascinating to me…. I love the cloistered life — I was in the seminary. I love my law clerks. I have this wonderful work to do.

And, as summarized by David Lat:

Justice Thomas is patient enough to wait for history to catch up with him, comparing some of his jurisprudence to “a fine wine — it just needs aging.” He noted that it took the first Justice Harlan, author of the great dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, sixty years to be vindicated.