Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. – Susan Sontag
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. – Susan Sontag
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag
Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag
Someday well learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation. – Frank Rich