In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
