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

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

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

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.