To write is to leave a mark, to say: I was here, I existed.

The instinct to fear risk forces the poor to take bigger risks.

I think music is a great healer. It's something that can make you feel better when you're down.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.

The best way to be happy is to be grateful.