850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

The old style of interpretation was insistent, but respectful; it erected another meaning on top of the literal one. The modern style of interpretation excavates, and as it excavates, destroys; it digs 'behind' the text, to find a sub-text which is the true one.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences of suicide. Or murder.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything

Depression is melancholy minus its charms the animation, the fits.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms, the animation, the fits.

The aesthetic view of the world is extremely hospitable to many of the uncivilized ideas and dissociated yearnings.

Sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication, through scruple, but then again it may not.