History works itself out in the living.

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.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

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.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.