Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.