“Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,” I quoted. - Kage Baker

You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.

The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.

He caught his breath, absorbing the impact of the scientific discoveries, the advances in scholarship, the inevitable dwindling into insignificance of issues that had mattered more than his life. He closed his eyes, turned his face away, but he couldn’t stop his understanding.
“You see?” said Edward. “They’re all happy pagans nowadays. When they take the trouble to worship at all. Enlightenment swept most of that nonsense away, and good riddance!”