Intellectual Circles Pillows

'Well, if you need me to put it into 'layman's terms' maybe you should be talking to someone with a lower IQ.'

Paul Ree

Miss America IQ Pageant

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"So, what are you reading?"

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

"'Mr. Evans,' she said to me with that adorable smile, 'I think you're the nicest boy in the entire old-boy network.'"

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

'Between you and me Wizard, is it true that you intellectuals have pointed heads?'

'This app tells me how near my friends are...'

Lost and Profound.

'As soon as I mention Nietzsche - stop serving me, okay.'

Vladimir Nabokov

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

"Virginia Woolf meets 'Car Talk.'"

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

'My thanks go first to the Nobel Committee for this great honor, and to my son who encouraged me to keep my mind agile with word games, and puzzles.'

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

Toni Morrison

"You're terrific, Katia. You think like 'The New York Review of Books' and look like 'Vogue.'"

Philosophers On Strike

'I inherited therefore I am'

Soren Kierkegaard

'This is getting to be too much for me. I'm thinking of becoming a middlebrow.'

Rudolf Carnap