I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

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

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.