I don’t think I’m destined to die today. I must be being saved for day after tomorrow. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Not only was Ivan an idiot, but he generated a telepathic damping field that turned people nearby into idiots too.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

The admiral did not invite Ivan to sit, so Ivan took up a prudent sort-of parade rest and waited. Someone would tell him what was going on shortly; they always did, however little he wanted to know.