- [1971] What surprised and hurt me most was how much the Indians believed the white man over and over again. Their trust in authority was amazing. They just never seemed to believe anyone could lie.
- [1974] The West is a tragedy relieved by interludes of comedy. It is a tale of good and evil, a morality play of personified abstractions. Only an epic poet, a Homer, could encompass the American West and sing its essence into one compact volume.
- [1980] What particularly excites me nowadays is the growing strength of literature written by American Indians themselves - Scott Momaday Jr., Vine Deloria Jr., James Welch, Jamake Highwater, Leslie Silko. When an Indian learns how to write, he's as good as they come.
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