Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

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

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

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

We only know how to lose and be lost.