"I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Cutting Quotes #Editors Quotes #Scripts Quotes

“You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.”
“We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.”
“......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.”
“There is nothing left to do but get drunk.”
“In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.”
“Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.225, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.”
“None of us is a smart as all of us.”

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