Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isnt sex but death. – Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isnt sex but death. – Susan Sontag
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. – George Borrow