High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

And then I sez—‘How is anybody a-goin’ to live pattern lives, when they are a-starvin' to death? And how is anybody a-goin’ to enjoy religion when they are a-chokin’?

Some people would rather be right that happy, I choose to be happy".

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'

Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Of course I have bad hair days; I’m human.

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.