The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

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

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.

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