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.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!