"The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things."

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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