I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.