Prude

Remind me to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. The title is ‘Gossip Unlimited’ — no, make that ‘Gossip Gone Wild.’

Jubal Harshaw in „Stranger in a strange land“
from Robert A. Heinlein

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Jubal Harshaw in „Stranger in a strange land“
from Robert A. Heinlein