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

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

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.

Make your dreams worth more than your sleep.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.