Sherman Alexie

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

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

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

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!'

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.

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