I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.