Quintilian

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.