Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
Susan SontagThere is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
Susan SontagMost people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan SontagMusic is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.
Susan Sontag