As usual, He underestimated the human potential for self-deception.

They misunderestimated me.

I think that Man in creating God somewhat overestimated his abilities.

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

People tend to underestimate him on first acquaintance. It’s a mistake they only make once. Whether or not they survive.

Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.

"People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong."

I told myself before the game, 'he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else' - but I was wrong.

He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.

I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

"He felt as if he had told a joke and they had missed the punchline and were leaning to him, wating for the kicker, the all-illuminating kicker that is found only in jokes; or as if someone had asked, "How you doing?" and the spring-and-strap arrangement in him had rusted and broken and he would never again be able to answer perfunctory questions the way other people did."