“If he is smart, he will run. He is not.”
“Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.”
“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.”
“He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”
“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”
“He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.”