I love to scare the already terrified assholes.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

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

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.