“There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense agai...” — George Santayana Quote

“There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.”

“Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.”

“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”

“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.”

“I'm probably most proud of the fact that we are bootstrapped and that we are able to do not just the typical Silicon Valley startup thing. We are basically throwing away all the typical conventions of other startups.”

“I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly.”

“From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.”

“I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.”

“I was a superhero fan in the '90s, so I'm definitely familiar with John Romita, Jr. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go to local conventions and line up and get his signature.”

“Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.”