Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more tha… - Susan Sontag

The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

The desire for reassurance. And, equally, to be reassured. (The itch to ask whether I’m still loved; and the itch to say, I love you, half-fearing that the other has forgotten, since the last time I said it.)

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.