592 Quotes by Sherman Alexie

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

I can't remember how to cry.

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

The world even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together.You can do it.I can do it.Let's do it.

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No poverty only teaches you how to be poor.