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

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

I'd like to die with my boots on.

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.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.