The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – 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
A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag
It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer