Susan Sontag Quotes

We’ve lost the line between public and private.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.

Every secret gets known to the world.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

I don't feel I have to share everything.

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.