the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.