I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.