Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.