I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Outer beauty is transient, but the beauty of the soul is everlasting.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

I don't play video games.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.