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 with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations. — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
