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.

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

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

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.