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

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature..

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….

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will..

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

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

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….

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 me….

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

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..