Bernard Stevens quotes from Northern Exposure

Bernard

As you may know, I spent the last three months in Africa. A wondrous, magical place. But as shadows lengthen across the KBHR window, thoughts turn to homecoming. Journey's end. Because in a sense, it's the coming back, the return which gives meaning to the going forth. We really don't know where we've been until we've come back to where we were. Only, where we were may not be as it was because of who we've become. Which is, after all, why we left.

Bernard

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation?

Bernard

Those Northern Lights are some kind of weird psychic, something?

Chris

Yeah.

Bernard

What causes them to do that?

Chris

Well, this is just my guess, but I think that high speed electrons and protons from the sun are trapped in the van Allen radiation belt. Then they're channeled through the Polar Regions by the earth's magnetic field where they collide with other particles and create a brilliant luminosity.

Bernard

What does that have to do with us?

[Chris

I swear man, I don't know.

[Bernard

Excuse me.

Joel

Yeah?

Bernard

Where am I?

Joel

You know, I've been asking myself that same question since I got here. I finally figured out we're somewhere between the end of the line and the middle of nowhere.

Bernard

Where is that on the map?

Chris

I can see how that can be a problem. You know, it's like Jung says, "The unconscious is revealed through the imagery of our dreams which express our innermost fears and our desires."

Bernard

Jung said that?

Chris

Yeah, I think it was Jung. Or maybe Vincent Price.