“I have exactly the same personality as my cat,” Judge Posner said in a memorable New Yorker profile. “I am cold, furtive, callous, snobbish, selfish and playful, but with a streak of cruelty.”
New York Times obituary for Judge Richard Posner.
He was as brilliant and eccentric as they say. I was terrified when he appeared on the panel for an oral argument in the 7th Circuit.
And I was grateful that he never got a seat on the Supreme Court.