I’m still spry, but I feel the teeth gnawing, and believe me, my friends, it was better to be young. - Poul Anderson

Do you know," said Maclaren, "there is one sin which is punished with unfailing certainty, and must therefore be the deadliest sin in all time. Stupidity.

The old man murmured: “Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.”

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.