Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

There are no truths. Only stories.

I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make, based on principles we believe in..

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

Thoughts without words… Can that be?