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

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

You know, I don’t at all hesitate to be a bit utopian about all this because I think hope is itself an act, a very big leap, which in a sense defies the grim facts always about us and opens up new ways of thinking about things.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we’re all convicted felons.

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

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it’s such a horribly American word, and it’s such a vamp and, I think it’s a death trap.

You can’t bank on the outcome.

To grow one has to feel pain, know uneasiness – as you certainly must know from your work as a child psychiatrist. Isn’t it more dangerous, more awful, when people don’t feel the kinds of doubts and misgivings and confusions we’ve been talking about, when instead their voices are stifled by the permeating ideology, the official seductive presence of the state and the marketplace and the military machine?