Sherman Alexie Way Quotations

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

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 emotion.