I got through my childhood in a delirium of literary exaltations. - Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don’t believe it’s true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.

To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings."