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.

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

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.