"Hey, Victor, I heard about your Dad."

"Call me Zits."

"My father, shotgun-rich and impulse-poor..."

"She had wanted a maximum life, an original aboriginal life..."

"The music rose past the hitchhiker up into the sky, banged into the Big Dipper, and bounced off the bright moon."

"I lifted my father and carried him across every border."

"John is four years old when he dances at a powwow for the first time."