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

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society’s notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ‘spaceship’ and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to … Read more

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, … Read more

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

I did it to myself. It wasn’t society… it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.