I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

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

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.