I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.