Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.