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

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

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

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

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is 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. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.