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

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.

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.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

I am aware that true miracles, things unexplained by human reason, can only occur when Jesus does them.

As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.

The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.