Sherman Alexie

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.