Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

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.

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

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

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

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.

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.