“It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should… — Lee Siegel Happiness Copy Share Image
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. — Lee Siegel Approval Copy Share Image
I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. — Lee Siegel Badly Copy Share Image
Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. — Lee Siegel Anonymity Copy Share Image
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes. — Lee Siegel America Copy Share Image
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. — Lee Siegel American Copy Share Image
'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences. — Lee Siegel American Copy Share Image
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of… — Lee Siegel Address 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… — 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… — Lee Siegel America Copy Share Image
“All love songs, no matter how eloquent or crude, ornamented or plain, in whatever language they are sung, say essentially the same… — Lee Siegel Love 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… — Lee Siegel Also Copy Share Image
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion… — Lee Siegel About Copy Share Image
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism… — Lee Siegel Art Copy Share Image
“He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace… — Lee Siegel Life 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… — Lee Siegel Fitness Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,… — Lee Siegel Art 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… — Lee Siegel Books 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… — Lee Siegel Business 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,… — Lee Siegel Truth 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… — Lee Siegel Art Copy Share Image
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with… — Lee Siegel Bondage Copy Share Image
“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I… — Lee Siegel Deep Copy Share Image
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it… — Lee Siegel Cloudy 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… — Lee Siegel Art Copy Share Image
Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website -… — Lee Siegel Aspiration 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… — Lee Siegel Being Copy Share Image
“The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity.” — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book… — Lee Siegel Book Copy Share Image
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed… — Lee Siegel Black Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing… — Lee Siegel About Copy Share Image
“The counterculture had sought to practice the idea that creative personal expression was the essence of an authentic existence. The WELL, drawing… — Lee Siegel Counterculture Copy Share Image
