I enjoyed Joseph Epstein’s Commentary about his life as a writer-professor (without a doctorate), but two quotes in particular amused me most:
I have taught courses that, so low was the intellectual voltage in the room, I felt the dismaying truth of W. H. Auden’s remark that a professor is someone “who talks in other people’s sleep.” (Another, more pervasively truthful definition of a professor is “someone who never says anything once.”)