"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

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

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.