The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.

After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either.

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.