I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.

I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

You’re always making up stuff from the past, ” she said. “And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened.

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.