Susan Sontag
14 quotations
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Taste has no system and no proofs.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.