Charles Sanders Peirce

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.