Spreuken over Society

People own the 'Moonlight' Sonata. Their children were conceived to it, and it's difficult to find anybody in Western society who doesn't have a personal relationship to that. You put [that widely known] a song on, and you start dancing to it, you are going to collide with people's own lives and own stories, and we are very interested in that.

I think everybody pre-censors today. We have a politically correct, obsessed society. The prevailing rule of the day is don't offend anybody.

doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future.

I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.

When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.