Americans' addiction to sports with the NFL at the top is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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.

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.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

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

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

Terms like that 'Humane Society ' are devised with people like me in mind who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot and you see the local news and they give box-office reports.