In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
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 young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
Susan SontagAny disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
Susan SontagDissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.
Susan Sontag