When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.

Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.

I thought the whole world was like Lorain.