“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.”

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”

“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”