To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. Thatโs what lasts. Thatโs what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.
Susan SontagThe "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.
Susan SontagThe only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.
Susan SontagAIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Susan SontagThe ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.
Susan Sontag