Dreams I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. Susan Sontag 23
Future Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Susan Sontag 28
Future I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so... Susan Sontag 34
Truth The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag 27
Truth The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything.... Susan Sontag 27
Art The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The... Susan Sontag 25
Beauty The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty... Susan Sontag 36
