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

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?

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

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

That was a good day for me, " Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around and talked to my good friend and partner, Valkyrie Cain.

Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle