Warhol

Intelligent people somehow know this is their life, that this is all there is to it, that there will be no more or less.

They let other people make up stories about them, which allows the intelligent person to live the way he likes to live.

The lives of intelligent people are very different from the stories others have made up of their lives.

If we'd known, for instance, that the intelligent person in question lived like she or he had a heart, went to church every day and gave money to those less fortunate, would we have thought differently about them when they were alive?

Intelligent people give us lots of things to think about the rest of our lives.

Such as?

Such as the things we understand but can't explain, the things that really matter.