“مسخره است که چه‌طور غصّه‌دارترین آدم‌ها، می‌توانند شادترین مست‌ها باشند.”

“She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.”

“I had left the tribe, and I was being punished for that.”

“Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.”

“At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.”

“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”

“Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists.- "Indian Boy Love Song #1”