All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

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

I love to scare the already terrified assholes.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

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

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.