I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike;… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
