The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan SontagI have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.
Susan SontagI donโt care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces โintelligence.
Susan SontagWith the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
Susan Sontag