The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs…and jerk the heck out of you. Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

Good food ends with good talk. Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it...

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993