The Circular Ruins by Robert Yang

Young lady, I've been all over the Main Sequence.

I've hunted down criminals wanted in no less than three different galaxies, who could fire C-Beams with their minds. My advances in quantum biology and polymorphic software have saved thousands of colonies from Bruja plagueships. Emperors have been known to bow at my feet. I have achieved a dignity previously unknown to any living being before me.

And you have the gall to tell me that you won't go to bed?