Susan Sontag

"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder. "

"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. "

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

"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. "

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "