Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

The ordinary can be like medicine.