Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid. - Avram Davidson

How is your new woman? Your new-est one, I sh'd say."
Jack shrugged. "Good enough. They all got the same thing."
"Yeh-es," Jeff nodded, judiciously. "But some of 'm's got more of it than others.

The ceremony was long and intricate, probably none of them could have explained why half of it was done, and the explanations for the other half would probably have been thoroughly incorrect.

He who has slain one, will he abstain from slaying many?