My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...