To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

Knowing how people will use something is essential

I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.

The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."