Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG