Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.