If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

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

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.