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- It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
- But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
- Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
- Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
- Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
- You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
- It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
- You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
- See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
- Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
- Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
- Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
- Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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