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Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.