A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.