I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

Unfortunately, the escape became the trap.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say "Work a little harder Work a little longer Work!"

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.