Susan Sontag1933–2004- Review of Selected Essays by Simone Weil, The New York Review of Books (1 February 1963)
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
“Susan Sontag Finds Romance,” interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
“Why Are We in Kosovo?”, The New York Times (2 May 1999)From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.
“Against Interpretation” (1964), p. 5It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and GirouxDon’t be too hard on the envious. Be glad you have, or had in the past, something enviable.
Death Kit (1967), p.73 [Page numbers per the Penguin Modern Classics 2009 Edition]“Old” and “new” are the perennial poles of all feeling and sense of orientation in the world.
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)- Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), “One culture and the new sensibility”, p. 296
- “The Risk Taker”, profile/interview by Gary Younge, The Guardian (19 January 2002)
- Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
- “Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview” with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)
