Venator, Everard and Van Rijn On Misery
Opinions expressed by characters are not necessarily those of the author. However, sometimes they are and usually we can tell. Anderson also gives sympathetic treatment to characters that he clearly does not agree with in Mirkheim, The Devil's Game and Murder Bound.
Everard's saying could be included in "The Quotable Time Patrol." See Quotations which links to quotations both from the Time Patrol series and from The King Of Ys Tetralogy (with Karen Anderson). The Anderson multiverse is vast, encompassing both "scientific" and "supernatural" non-human intelligences (see Blurring A Distinction) as we might soon see depending on which direction this blog takes next.