When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

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