Philosophy: Susan Sontag: Journal, age 16

"I know what I want to do with my life ... I want to sleep with many people — I want to live and hate to die — I will not teach, or get a master's ... I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! ... I intend to do everything ... I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it, too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ... everything matters! ... I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?"