I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
Susan SontagA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.
Susan SontagPhotographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
Susan SontagSome of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.
Susan SontagA personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.
Susan SontagSomeone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.
Susan Sontag