A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my own work and according to which I fall lament… - Susan Sontag

Philosophy is an art form — art of thought or thought as art

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility. And the means for practicing art have been radically extended. ... Painters no longer feel themselves confined to canvas and paint, but employ hair, photographs, wax, sand, bicycle tires, their own toothbrushes and socks. Musicians have reached beyond the sounds of the traditional instruments to use tampered instruments and (usually on tape) synthetic sounds and industrial noises.

Sanity is a cozy lie.