Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.