Joseph Addison

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.