Tom Bodett

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and…

— Tom Bodett

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

— Tom Bodett

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the…

— Tom Bodett

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't…

— Tom Bodett

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of…

— Tom Bodett

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

— Tom Bodett

I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I…

— Tom Bodett

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

— Tom Bodett

Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?

— Tom Bodett

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and…

— Tom Bodett

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

— Tom Bodett

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

— Tom Bodett

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

— Tom Bodett

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I…

— Tom Bodett

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we…

— Tom Bodett

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio,…

— Tom Bodett

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

— Tom Bodett

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

— Tom Bodett

I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for…

— Tom Bodett

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

— Tom Bodett

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at…

— Tom Bodett

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed…

— Tom Bodett

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous…

— Tom Bodett

The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once…

— Tom Bodett

There's a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for…

— Tom Bodett