I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

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.

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

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

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

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