Quotes by : Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.....

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing....

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism:....

Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality....

If one could amputate part of one's consciousness...

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was....

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act,....