“Our epoch does not love itself.”

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.

Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.

The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.