Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.