The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

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.

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.