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?

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.

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.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

I did not support Operation Desert Fox.

Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent all of this stuff [Hackers attacks] from happening ever again.

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?