When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - Robert A. Heinlein

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned — rather slowly; I wasn’t too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.