Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

History works itself out in the living.