English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.