“Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.” - Susan Sontag, concluding her acceptance speech for the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels award.

[“Two weeks ago during the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) to Susan Sontag. She was cited for standing up for ‘the dignity of free thinking’ and for her role as an ‘intellectual ambassador’ between the United States and Europe.”]