These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.

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.

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.