We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

One play can change your momentum forever.

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

All I owe the world is my art.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.