Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

Don't criticise the person who talks to himself; maybe he's the best company available.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Critique my better work only, because I want to get better from my best, not better from my worst.