much of what other people know isn’t worth knowing.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

People never notice anything.

Because most people ain't people.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.