Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
Susan SontagNorman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
Susan SontagIf I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
Susan SontagIndeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Platoโs Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.
Susan Sontag