Intellectual Giant Pillows

'So...you THINK you have what it takes to be a scientist...?'

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

'Well, Tommy, you've grown a foot since the last time I saw you!'

Miss America IQ Pageant

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

Paul Ree

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

"I learned how to shop online, mommy. If you see a series of tractor trailers arrive, it's just the rest of the stuff I ordered."

"Quick! The ideas are hatching!"

Downloads.

"'What I wanted to do, but could not, during my socially-distanced summer vacation this year'..."

'I've been told before that I'm very mature for a three year old.'

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'

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

"I just figured she was holding all my calls. Turns out she's been running the company."

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

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

Giant to librarian: 'Excuse me, do you have a large print version?'

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

Lost and Profound.

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

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

Toni Morrison

'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.'

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

"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?"

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

Philosophers On Strike

Soren Kierkegaard

Thomas Carlyle

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