The average man is proof the average woman can take a joke,” he said. - Louise Erdrich

I already knew, too, that these questions would not change the facts. But they would inevitably change the way we sought justice.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.