Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

A literature has developed on whether discrimination in the marketplace due to prejudice disappears in the long run. Whether employers who do not want to discriminate will eventually compete away all discriminating employers depends not only on the distribution of tastes for discrimination among potential employers, but critically also on the nature of firm production functions.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.