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.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

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.