"The evil we face today is a class of people who don't mind the tent cities springing up in places like Sacramento so long as they get to live on leafy estates in New Canaan; who shrug at the news of food stamp enrollments reaching new records as they book their reservations at Masa; who react to IMF warnings of depression-fueled unrest overseas by moving their vacations from Aruba to Aspen; I could rattle off as many stereotypes as you like and they'd all be true. And, yeah, it's pretty boring that the global economy has been brought to the brink by people motivated by nothing more complicated than a desire for an extravagant lifestyle. They're not tortured souls like Two-Face or implacable and incomprehensible like the Joker. They're Silver Age bank robbers; they've just discovered that the bank is easier to rob with a contract and a desk than with a gun and a getaway car."

" the delight and terror of all, you’ve set a 30 foot-high, 37 ton mechanical spider rampaging through the streets of Liverpool. Incredible."