Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.