“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.”

“I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.”