I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

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

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

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