I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.