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

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

There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

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

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.