“We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?”
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
“Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.”
“Well, all speaking is difficult, whether peril attends it or not. Sometimes peril to the body, sometimes a more intimate, miniature, invisible peril to the soul. When to speak at all is a betrayal of something, perhaps a something not even identified, hiding inside the chambers of the body like a scared refugee in a site of war.”
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”