History is the stories we tell about the past.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

There are no truths. Only stories.

I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

Spread LOVE and KINDNESS wherever you go. Then you can be sure you are never far from it!

People who have suffered understand pain and are often the best at helping others.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

In short, I don't root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America.

Muslims have never been and never can be so base as to expect any solutions to their problems through terror.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.