Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death`s door when they have a simple head cold?
- Shirley BoothGenetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
- Allen MerrittYears ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
- Don DeLillo