Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a 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.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.