A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.