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

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

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

All I owe the world is my art.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.