Justice Antonin Scalia (via Boston Herald)
I was an adjective! Coming from a celebrated wordsmith like Scalia, the custom-tailored word was something of a badge of honor. Other news organizations wrote about the unheard-of letter, giving me enough publicity that I later wondered if Scalia regretted writing it.
— Tony Mauro, longtime Supreme Court correspondent for the National Law Journal, reminiscing about the time that Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a letter to editor complaining about a “Mauronic” article.