We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."