When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.

The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.