Dr. Potter makes Am Lit so worth it!

We’ll put little hobbits up on the table and slice them open? That’s terrible! That’s something Sauron would do!
~ Dr. Potter on his dislike for analyzing The Lord of the Rings

…and if they send the wrong pizza, you don’t say, “This is an interesting hermeneutic dilemma.” No! You say, “send it back and no tip for you, Bub!”

Let’s think, and I want to say briefly (but you won’t believe me), about feminist criticism.

Is there an essence of Dr. Potter? That’s a frightening thought!

You should probably get aerobic points for PE.
~Because we lug 3,000 p. anthologies about

We are a nation created ex scribbla!

Ok, I got off track. Sermon over. Set the soap box aside.

The one attitude you never want to have is: what I have written, I have written.

Ok, so that was a simplistic reduction of several hundred years.

No… No! You need to get your money’s worth!
~The reason he won’t let us out of class early

Lord willin’ and the crik don’t rise.

If you want to adjourn yourselves, how can I stop you?

She, poor dear, thinks the couch is gold…
~Of his wife and the controversial couch

If we can’t agree on the color of the doggone couch, how can I know that anything I see around me is real?!

You’re a sly dog, Henry David.

A great scene for Gladiator enacted on a wood chip.
~On Thoreau’s account of the ant battle

If the loon is an emissary of the natural world… Maybe that’s too much to pin on a poor little loon…
~During discussion of Walden

Can’t find where you’re going until you get lost first, right? Well, I don’t know if that’s true, but Thoreau probably would have though it was.
~With a characteristic Dr. Potter smirk.

Time’s winged chariot, my friends. Time’s winged chariot.
~Dr. Potter, wishing he could ignore the clock.

He’s just representative of the polymorphous perverse.
~On Walt Whitman

Sons and Daughters of Walt, unite! Animate the world! We could all sing of the circle of life!

Well, curse the clock, you’ve got to go.

Well, we’re on the downward slope. Let’s just hope there isn’t a wall at the bottom…
Upon our return from Thanksgiving break

“And the sermon is never long” (and all the people said “Amen”).
~Dr. Potter’s insertion while reading Dickinson

You can write your essays in whatever you like. I dunno. Blood?
~Explaining the final exam