Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accept of who you are and your hopes would be fulfilled if you are persistent with yourself.

Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God’s greater purpose for mankind.

I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can't promise you that I won't want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

We've all been underestimated at times. That's life.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.