Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag
To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didnt expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world – she did not expect to adjust to mine. – Martha Plimpton