We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.