All one

Near-synonyms: all the same, monolithic, of a kind, of a piece, cut from the same cloth

But what care I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me.

Near or distant, blood or water, it's all one.

And sometimes he had some preliminary information to help him, and sometimes he had not. And it was all one, really. It was about as useful as information trying to convey the locality and intentions of a cloud.