We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles or control?

I have in some ways saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive still get through it.

In this I-me society my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

In a repressive society a writer can be deeply influential but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

In a society which is structured the wrong way piety has no effect.