I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

We are what make up society.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.