If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say. - John le Carré

...what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.

Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things. What do you think of i?

But gossip must see its characters
in black and white, equip them with
sins and motives easily conveyed in
the shorthand of conversation.