The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right. - Justice David Souter
According to Jeffrey Toobin's book The Nine, Souter has a decidedly low-tech lifestyle. He writes with a fountain pen and does not use e-mail. According to Toobin, Souter has no cell phone, no answering machine, and no television. He prefers to drive back to New Hampshire for the summer.Souter also does his own home repairs, and spent five hours fixing his own roof in 2008.
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I attended SJC Alumni Club meetings in NYC in the early 1990s and there was an Alum there that embraced this Waldenesque style of living of Souter's as well.
At the time I thought it was a pretty bold approach, but years later I found out that HDT didn't spend all his time at The Pond, but in fact took off weekends to go keep his Moms company.
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