“It is difficult for the citizens of America, having never seen their country devastated by war to really understand and appreciate the full horrors of war and the absolute necessity for bending all our efforts to preventing another and even more disastrous conflict. Surely the problem that concerns all of us most greatly is the possibility of a new war.” – Susan Sontag, editor, The Arcade (student newspaper of North Hollywood High School), 1948. This piece, on the subject of Armistice Day, was written by Sontag at the age of 15.

Quote of the Week: “It is difficult for the citizens of America, having never seen their country devastated by war to really understand and appreciate the full horrors of war and the absolute necessity for bending all our efforts to preventing another and even more disastrous conflict. Surely the problem that concerns all of us most greatly is the possibility of a new war.” – Susan Sontag, editor, The Arcade (student newspaper of North Hollywood High School), 1948. This piece, on the subject of Armistice Day, was written by Sontag at the age of 15.

“It is difficult for the citizens of America, having never seen their country devastated by war to really understand and appreciate the full horrors of war and the absolute necessity for bending all our efforts to preventing another and even more disastrous conflict. Surely the problem that concerns all of us most greatly is the possibility of a new war.” – Susan Sontag, editor, The Arcade (student newspaper of North Hollywood High School), 1948. This piece, on the subject of Armistice Day, was written by Sontag at the age of 15.

“The only interesting ideas are heresies”

“Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”

“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.” -At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, 2007

“In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past but the one who invents it.” -On Photography, 1977

“To paraphrase several sages: ‘Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.’” -Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003

“To be a woman is to be an actress. Being feminine is a kind of theater, with its appropriate costumes, decor, lighting, and stylized gestures.” -“The Double Standard of Aging,” The Saturday Review, September 23, 1972

“Of everything that’s said, one can ask: *why*?… Strictly speaking, nothing that’s *said* is true… Speech can enlighten, relieve, confuse, exalt, infect, antagonize, gratify, grieve, stun, animate… But speech can silence, too.” -“The Aesthetics of Silence,” Styles of Radical Will, 1969