Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

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

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.