~Keith H. Basso from WISDOM SITS IN PLACES

"They made a picture of it with words. Now they could speak about it and remember it clearly and well. Now they had a picture they could carry in their minds. You can see for yourself. It looks like its name."

~Keith H. Basso from WISDOM SITS IN PLACES

"As relatives we make each other rich because we help each other in times of need. It has been this way since the beginning. What made you forget this?"

~Sherman Alexie from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven

"That's what Indian time is. The past, the future, all of it is wrapped up in the now. That's how it is. We are trapped in the now."

~Sherman Alexie from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven

"'What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be.'"

~Sherman Alexie from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven

"It's hard to be optimistic on the reservation. When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. Still, Indians have a way of surviving. But it's almost like Indians can easily survive the big stuff. Mass murder, loss of language and land rights. It's the small things that hurt the most. The white waitress who wouldn't take an order, Tonto, the Washington Redskins."

~Bret Easton Ellis from AMERICAN PSYCHO

"Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in . . . ."

~Bret Easton Ellis from AMERICAN PSYCHO

"Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?"