Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals And Notebooks, 1947-1963 Quotes
It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.