Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! – Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
I put the copy of A Christmas Carol that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the Christmas Spirits. I plan to read it to my grandson. – Whitley Strieber