... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.
Susan SontagIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
Susan SontagThe writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
Susan SontagAs one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.
Susan Sontag