In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.