Quotes About Criticism

I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'

People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it was nothing. So through the bad shows, I never wanted to quit.

Before the McClellan fight, people were worried. Since that fight other people say I should quit but I think people should just keep their noses out of my business.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.

I've been politically radical my whole life, so when the left attacks, that hurts more.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.

I read a lot of things on Twitter, and I see a lot of things about Shayna and about me. I absolutely hate it when they rag on her and say she's boring. She's a heel, she's not supposed to be exciting. She's not supposed to make you like her.

Comedy brings out this rage in people: they get furious when they don't like something. I have some lovely hardcore fans.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

When I see something wrong, I just rail against it.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

A lot of people in the media say that Donald Trump goes golfing too much, which raises a very important question: Why do you care? Do you want to know what he's not doing when he's golfing? Being president. Let the man putt-putt!