In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.