"He's been down there for forty years, without eating, without... sleeping. He's a being of unknowable power. So what do I do? Say 'Sorry — it was all my father's fault. Look me up the next time you're incarcerated on the physical plane'? The Order isn't just a way to make money and get laid, Paul. Some of it's for real. I've seen stuff you'd never believe, things that still scare me. Nightmare things. We're safer just leaving him down there. I'll be dead long before he ever gets out. It'll be someone else's problem."
— Alex Burgess, The Sandman (1989), "Sleep of the Just"
