If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.