Quotes About Scholarly

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

The obsession with originality is a *coarse* scholarly egotism. Whoever is incapable of treating every foreign thought as though it were his own, and a personal thought as though it were foreign—is no true scholar.

The body of the ponderous scholarly exegesis that began to bather around Busch in his lifetime and picked up speed after his death is witness to the humorlessness of much writing about humor.