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

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.

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.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Never loan your heart to hatred

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

I shook up the world.

If you want something done right, just forget it.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

I read books to read myself.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.