During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.

- Heidi Julavits

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

- Paul LePage

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

- Paul LePage

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

- Noah Gray-Cabey

They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.

- Mark Duplass

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

- Martha Stewart

I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.

- Kate Christensen

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

- John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

- John Baldacci

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

- John Baldacci

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

- Alexander Chee

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

- George J. Mitchell

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

- Elizabeth Strout

I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.

- Elizabeth Strout

In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

- Elizabeth Strout

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

- David Wain

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

- David Brenner

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

- Chellie Pingree

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.

- Bill Bryson

I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.

- Alexander Chee