Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That’s Montana.
We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we’ve been lied to.
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito...
That’s the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.
They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
Sometimes it’s called passing out and sometimes it’s just pretending to be asleep.
I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird.
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus’s body.
Funny how a little politeness can change people’s minds.
You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
Unlike landed white men, she didn’t need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.