The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his…

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

If a man needs his appendix taken out, his gallbladder treated and some brain surgery...

If a man needs his appendix taken out, his gallbladder treated and some brain surgery...

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware...

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware...