Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

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

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.