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.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

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

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