My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

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.

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. I believed everything and everyone. Then, I met my parents!

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.