I see it matters to you what his motives are but it is of no importance for me

'You and I are very different in the way we look at things,  Ashton said, 'and it has taken the advent of Kemp to make this difference clearer - I think to both of us. I see it matters to you what his motives are but it is of no importance for me. Motives are a labyrinth we need not enter. All that matters is the use that can be made of his words....'

B. Unsworth, The quality of mercy (2011), 265