Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag
Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag