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

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.

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.

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

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

[My mom told me] to always be loyal and treat someone how you want to be treated. Find someone that you can love and that's going to be your best friend.

I think someone's sexual orientation is great fodder for gossip. But again, it's non-news to me or anyone who knows me.

You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.