Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind."
— Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will)
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies."
— Susan Sontag (Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963)
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time,