"I don’t have to participate in another culture’s ceremonies in order to respect that culture." ― Sherman Alexie Topic(s): Respect More From Sherman Alexie "I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it." "My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we’d lie in the same bed, and I’d read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel." "My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me – not so much the positive stuff, but the damage." More In Respect "I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don’t respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all."― Alexander Graham Bell "Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."― Langston Hughes "I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."― Robert Wyatt