The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – 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
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag