When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

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.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.