Roughage Quotes

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. (Phyllis McGinley)
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage. View quote
Zadie Smith
Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation. View quote
J. G. Ballard