Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

Repetition is the death of art. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away...

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself…The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean