Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

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

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

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.

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.