Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

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.

If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.