...Carry it with me...

"I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: _Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;_ or maybe just: _Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters._ And then smile very serenely until they say _oh._" -Sugar; Dear Sugar, the Rumpus Advice Column

The first duty of a lecturer...

"The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." -Virginia Woolf

Education is what survives...

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner

Colleges are places where pebbles...

"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." -Robert G. Ingersoll