Against Interpretation and Other Essays

by Susan Sontag

everything in quotation marks.

Being-as-Playing-a-Role.

Behind the “straight” public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails.

dethrone the serious.

homosexuals, by and large, constitute the vanguard—and the most articulate audience—of Camp.