Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
Susan SontagThe hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
Susan SontagI'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.
Susan SontagYou know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.
Susan Sontag