She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

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.