From the June 2008 issue of Vanity Fair…
Who are your heroes in real life?
Let’s go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of
the right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the
freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful. The
man Garry Wills describes “with the future in his eyes … paradoxically
calming and provoking,” and whom Flannery O’Connor saw as “the ragged
figure who moves from tree to tree in the back of [one’s] mind.”
Neat.