Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.
Susan SontagIn the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
Susan SontagThe taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan SontagWhat I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
Susan Sontag