Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.