A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.

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)

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.