My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.