Susan Sontag

"Love is friendship on fire."

- Susan Sontag

"It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin."

- Susan Sontag

"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."

- Susan Sontag

"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage."

- Susan Sontag

"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers."

- Susan Sontag

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it."

- Susan Sontag

"The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather — in many cases — offers an alternative to it."

- Susan Sontag

"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage."

- Susan Sontag

"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."

- Susan Sontag

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading."

- Susan Sontag

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading."

- Susan Sontag

"Depression is melancholy minus its charms."

- Susan Sontag

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book."

- Susan Sontag

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."

- Susan Sontag

"The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent."

- Susan Sontag

"Rules of taste enforce structures of power."

- Susan Sontag