Maureen Corrigan Quotes

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me.

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.