Sanity is a cozy lie.

Quote by Susan Sontag

Topics: Susan Sontag Quotes

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.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

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...

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...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its...

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its...

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.