I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

Time is a valuable wealth.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.