Sydney Schanberg Quotes

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

Every previous era looks innocent.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

All progression is in the relative world.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the word marriage to the word soul mates, but you are the same. You will make the same hell out of soul mates as you have been making out of marriage - nothing has changed, only the word, the label. Don't believe in labels too much.

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.