I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.