Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

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

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.