Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag
Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things – Lance Armstrong