Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Susan SontagWhy wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.
Susan SontagThe two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
Susan Sontag