Doors of Founders Hall

Autrey

Eleazer Flannagan Cowles

The blogger in his office at 7 a.m.
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Obituary for anthropologist Clifford Gertz, who died October 30

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"Being a writer means having homework for the rest of your life."

-- Lawrence Kasden

"I liked this poem and even began to like it more after reading it."

-- Student

"It's like a ornado come through and just disastered everything."

-- Hurricane Katrina victim

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love."

-- Jonathan Swift

"Tattoos: permanent reminders of a temporary feeling."

-- Jimmy Buffett

"Teaching is one of three impossible jobs. The others: to govern and to cure."

-- Freud

"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out."

-- Lichtenberg

"I want to take the reader by the throat, break her heart, and heal it again."

-- Dorothy Allison

"I'm focused on the central yearning of characters."

-- Robert Olen Butler

"If you're not sure whether a line of poetry is working, it ain't."

-- Ron Rash

"The very measure of our creative drive is that we longingly dream of one day being free of it."

--Maria Flook

"Exaggerate in the direction of truth."

-- Henri Matisse

"Their coach is a walking parenthesis without a companion to bracket his stray thoughts."

-- from a New York Times article on Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach

"Rembert, South Carolina is a good place to grow up but a terrible place to grow old."

-- Andrew Dennis, a student