Investigative Intellect Gifts

Journalism Machine

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

"Could I ask just one question?"

Paul Ree

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?”

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

Kid arrives with CCTV camera, saying: 'It followed me home, can we keep it?'

The Book Lover

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Downloads.

"And you need to know this why?"

Assertiveness

"It's going to be one of those days."

'You've been killing files again.'

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

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

"Face it -- you resent me for the exploring in depth a world that you take for granted."

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

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

"O.K. What part of 'malignant regression and pathogenic reintrojection as a defense against psychic decompensation' don't you understand?"

Lost and Profound.

Capital

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

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

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

Toni Morrison

"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?"

'... Because it's the law! That's why!'

'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.'

Philosophers On Strike

Soren Kierkegaard

Thomas Carlyle