The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

- N. Scott Momaday

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

- N. Scott Momaday

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an over…

- N. Scott Momaday

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be boug…

- N. Scott Momaday

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

- N. Scott Momaday

Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in …

- N. Scott Momaday

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land e…

- N. Scott Momaday

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

- N. Scott Momaday

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

- N. Scott Momaday