Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
My father is an amazing man.
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.