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

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.

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

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.

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.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Miracle is going to WORK with you, only if you are going to do same with Miracle..!!

Voice is my instrument.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

I was never happy, I was just less pissed off.

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.