the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

I guess I like to have fun.

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.