Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

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

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1