“ Like a horseman who reins in a wild stallion that has borne him, will he, nill he, across several counties; or a ship's captain who, after scudding before a gale through a bad night, hoists sail, and… Neal Stephenson
“ I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. Rae Hachton
“ Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself. Mordecai Richler