Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.