That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

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.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.