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.

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

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

All I owe the world is my art.

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.