Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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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...

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...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

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...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

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...

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...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

It is not the position, but the disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour,...

And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour,...