‘Most people are other people,' Oscar Wilde remarked, ‘their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation..'

In this wonderfully entertaining collection of quotations, Simon Leys gathers insights and bons mots from a motley group of great artists, wits and thinkers. Topics range from ambition and adventure to youth, sex, time, toads, wine, faith and friendship. Traversing cultures and times and reflecting Leys' unique sensibility, Other People's Thoughts will provoke, inspire and delight.