“My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism”

“Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.”

“Someone who wants the best for you is what’s best for you.”

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.”

“And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.”

“The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument with a liberal.”

“An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.”

“Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."

Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"

"I bet you'll tell me."

" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "

You're a riot.”

“Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?”

“Hegel made famous his aphorism that all the rational is real and all the real rational; but there are many of us who, unconvinced by Hegel, continue to believe that the real, the really real, is irrational, that reason builds upon irrationalities. Hegel, a great framer of definitions, attempted with definitions to reconstruct the universe, like that artillery sergeant who said that cannon were made by taking a hole and enclosing it with steel.”