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- There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Lovers and Madmen, 1994
- The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
- Johann Von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
- There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
- Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Jules et Joel, 1991
- I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
- Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
- What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992
- Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.
- Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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