The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

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.

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

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

Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

All dreams have to come to an end.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

He who makes time precious lives forever.

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.