I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.
It's not going to be over until we say so.
Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.
There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
