Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

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

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.

You can't bank on the outcome.

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

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.