The WELLians were learning how to turn their private…

“Every private thought is performed for public consumption, and every leisure moment (from toilet training to lovemaking) is a highly focused search for a…

— Lee Siegel

“Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.”

— Lee Siegel

“I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top drawer of…

— Lee Siegel

“The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same…

— Lee Siegel

“It's okay, you can do it. Because I am playing with myself as I write this, I hope you're doing the same as you…

— Lee Siegel

“I'm writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers.…

— Lee Siegel

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country…

— Lee Siegel

“Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen.”

— Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

— Lee Siegel

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

— Lee Siegel

“In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more…

— Lee Siegel

Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving.…

— Lee Siegel

Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused…

— Lee Siegel

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the…

— Lee Siegel

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

— Lee Siegel