There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.
I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
