"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [<i>Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Pr… - Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.