“The fecundity and the importance of a literary form are often measured by the trash it contains.  The number of bad novels must not make us forget the value of the best.”

     -Albert Camus

"All of us need to keep reading.  You can't think at all clearly or well without memory, and it matters a great deal what you remember, and if what you remember is mediocre stuff, you are not going to be able to think very well, and if as a nation we stop thinking well, some day we will cease to be a democracy.  It really matters reading the best that has been written ever, the best that has been thought ever."

       -Harold Bloom