“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.”

“If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.”