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

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 t….

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 me….

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was….

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

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..

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature..

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

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will..

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soo….

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritatin….

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery..