What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. Susan Sontag Read Quote
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Susan Sontag Read Quote
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. Susan Sontag Read Quote
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Susan Sontag Read Quote
Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Susan Sontag Read Quote
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. Susan Sontag Read Quote
