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.
Susan SontagCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan SontagRead a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
Susan SontagThe solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
Susan Sontag