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.

I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.