A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan SontagIllnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
Susan SontagWhere once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Susan SontagThe quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.
Susan Sontag