Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

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."

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.