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 take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

I hate everything which is not in myself.