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.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

One play can change your momentum forever.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

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