“History has been the history of warfare.” — Godfrey Reggio

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.