I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous