Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.

The male gender remembers only the things that entertain them.

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

If you can find him, then he can find you. If he wants to find you, he will.

We the money team Fell asleep next to that cake and had a money dream

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

For this relief, much thanks