850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.