"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." - Wystan Hugh Auden

"Don't let the University get in the way of your education." - Brown, Raymond [Director of the Penn State University Choirs]

"Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up." - McLuhan, Marshall quoted in Phillip Marchand's biography of him

"If this is an ivory tower, then I must be in the basement!" - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 9 August 1995