I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey.

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino

Every love gives you wings.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what's going on here.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever