Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.

As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.

It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

Sunday the day for the language of leisure.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.