My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

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.

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard.....

Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.