Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.