850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Style is the principle of decision in a work of art.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is, 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.

Now, it is cancer's turn to be the disease that doesn't knock before it enters.