Clarence Thomas: "I do not intend to answer articles I didn't read and most of which I consider extremely irrelevant."

What does he think about the New York Times calling him "the angriest justice"? He's not answering. Because it makes him angry? No, because it's irrelevant. Extremely irrelevant.

"I can't afford to be angry," he added several minutes later. "When you're struggling, you can't afford to carry that millstone of anger with you. You gotta let it go. I say that to younger kids who have issues with their parents: let it go."

He was also asked about his famous silence on the bench:

[H]e said that historically members of the court did not engage in "this sort of chattering," especially since much of a case has already been hashed out at the appellate level. "The real question should be, 'Why the sudden change?'" he said....

I wish he'd answer the "real question," then. Perhaps a complete transcript would show he did. Presumably — as the word "chattering" indicates — the answer would show disrespect to his colleagues.

IN THE COMMENTS: ricpic offers a poem:

If Breyer would stop his interminable chattering
And Ginsburg her incessant nattering
(Their excessive verbosity does so dismay)
I could think of something shattering
To say.