This interview with Philip Gourevitch is mostly about interviewing, but I like this, too:

My guilty pleasure reads are things that are just fabulously written. I don’t know how to say it without it being pretentious---I’ll read a chapter from Moby Dick or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at random, where the language is just rocketing around, where there’s absolutely no urgency to read it. It’s like putting on one of your great anthem songs. It’s like cranking the stereo.