“Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place – the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic – and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.”

“Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place – the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic – and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.”

— Clifford D. Simak