I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.