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

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

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