Lee Siegel Quotes & Sayings

“I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.”

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

“'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.”

“I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.”

“Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.”

“The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.”

“Every man is a hero to his alias.”

“I am too childlike to be immature.”

“I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time.”

“In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.”