The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
Susan SontagThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
Susan SontagIn the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.
Susan SontagMuch of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
Susan Sontag