That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

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

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.