Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.
Susan SontagIn good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
Susan SontagOne man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.
Susan Sontagthe process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.
Susan SontagThe way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.
Susan Sontag