Susan Sontag

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

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

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

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.