AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Susan SontagI don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
Susan SontagPhotographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
Susan SontagIllness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
Susan Sontag