My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

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.

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Pick a side or create new one ! Otherwise be a coward or traitor.

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that my imagination just takes over!

I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.

I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Sometimes, when you get a girl pregnant, you blame the condom. His condom broke that night.

I am really lucky to have Jeff. He is my best friend in the whole world, not only my brother.