"I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can...












Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

More Susan Sontag quotes
"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.
"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
"We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the
"One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
"Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
"Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.
"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.
"Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.
"One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.