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.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.