81 Quotes by Louis Menand

Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

When I met him, I didn't feel a particular warmth toward him.

He's got everything all figured out. It was hard to get him off track.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education curriculum, our experience was that Harvard's all about specialization, that's not just true of the professori, it's also true of a lot of the undergraduates, too, and they come, they kind of know what they want to do, they select it because they have a strong aptitude for something in particular.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.