In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

I can't remember how to cry.

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.