Susan Sontag

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.