I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

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.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.