If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon. or on society.

Since I have come to America I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come but while living in America I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

If you look at the footballers you look at our celebrity culture we seem to be saying 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better happier place than one where there are not.

Stabilizing the euro is one thing healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.