Tao Te Ching

“however presumably lofty the intellectual, moral, and spiritual heights we've all reached, our gusto for the lurid or the partly lurid (which of course, includes both low and superior gossip) is probably the last of our fleshy appetites to be sated or effectively curbed.”

— J. D. Salinger 1919 – 2010 CE
from Raise High the Roof Beams, Seymour an Introduction