The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

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

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

The ordinary can be like medicine.