Are you happy? Your question is meaningless. I am occupied. I participate in operations, I am one with the… — Poul Anderson

It would annoy me less that we’re heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.

I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.

I also know you cannot pick and choose. Change is a medicine bundle. You must refuse it altogether, or take the whole thing.