James Anthony Froude

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.