Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

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

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.