“The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to Th...” — James Welch Quote

“The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.”

“The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.”

“I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.”

“Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'”

“You have to set the bar higher and higher.”

“I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.”