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

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

Never feel powerless when you have the power of love.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

Children make your life important.

Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

I was actually very surprised, and I told myself wow, I want to fight this guy.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.