Children pay little attention to their parents’ teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

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

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.