55 Quotes by Ian Frazier

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place.

Russians don’t complain, usually.

Everything in Russia is made of cement – phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

I don’t want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies – dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I’m content with what little religion I already have.

I don’t want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

There’s an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it’s really a heroic place.

Words are charms. It’s like a song you didn’t even know you knew.

Human connection is the way things work. It’s like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it’s okay.

I don’t have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.