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

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

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.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.

My father is an amazing man.