The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

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.

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.

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

The path is here, " he said quietly. "But you are free to walk it or choose another way.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented.