Think. You have had your dealings with our bureaucracy. It is impossible not to, especially if one is a… — 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.

Are you happy?

Your question is meaningless. I am occupied. I participate in operations, I am one with the accomplishments.

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.