We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.

For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.

This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

We the People . . . The People of the Long House.

The Day of Trouble is Near

We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.

West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

When I saw something that needed doing I did it.

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.