Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

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

I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

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