Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan SontagWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan SontagIt's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.
Susan SontagThe public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
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