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.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Every society all government and every kind of civil compact therefore is or ought to be calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously there's no way of avoiding violence which is so present in society.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in where money is a little harder to come by things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them if they stay.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.