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My library is an archive of longings.Susan Sontag
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Alone, alone. I am alone — I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.Susan Sontag
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.Susan Sontag
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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.Susan Sontag
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If one could amputate part of one's consciousness...Susan Sontag
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.Susan Sontag
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I’m now writing out of rage – and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It’s tonic. I roar with laughter. I want to denounce everybody, tell everybody off. I go to my typewriter as I might go to my machine gun. But I’m safe. I don’t have to face the consequences of ‘real’ aggressivity. I’m sending out colis piégés ['booby-trapped packages'] to the world.Susan Sontag