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Susan Sontag
Books are funny...
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The best emotions...
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is...
I was not...
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...
The basic unit...
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of...
It is the...
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is...
A family's photograph...
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of...
A large part...
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a...
Camp is a...
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...
A fiction about...
A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or...
Any critic is...
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...
Ambition if it...
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Source: The...
AIDS obliges people...
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...
A photograph is...
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace,...
All. . ....
All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...
Authoritarian political ideologies...
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by...
American energy. ....
American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural...
Anthropology has always...
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The...
AIDS occupies such...
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very...
Any important disease...
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in...
Cancer patients are...
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is...