Kurt Busiek > Quotes

“Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.”
― Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity

“It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We’ve been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it’ll do.”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City

“And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be appropriately grateful--or merely because they need the help?”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City: Metrobook, Vol. 1

“He was saving innocents and serving truth. And in the final judgement, what is more important? The burdens we bear -- or the way we bear them?”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City, Vol. 2: Confession

“And I saw in them a hope...A hope that it was possible to have secrets, to mask one's true nature...and yet still to walk among men. ”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City, Vol. 2: Confession

“She said things that'd have sounded like cliches--but when they're said by the woman you love in the middle of the night, it's different.

I said things that sounded like cowboy-movie junk, even when they were coming out of my mouth. But I meant them.”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City, Vol. 5: Local Heroes

“At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition."

-Interview with Tasha Robinson, avclub.com February 14, 2001.”
― Kurt Busiek

“I figured, if I have to lie to be with her, I'll lie. It's worth it.
And then, at her door, I didn't want to lie. It was all a bad idea. I knew it.”
― Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity

“The Falcon? He ain't no hero -- Not up here!
Yeah! His skin be black -- -- but inside, he just another white guy!”
― Kurt Busiek, Marvels (1994) #4

“I had to wonder: Were the mutants the price we paid for the Marvels? The negatives without which the pictures we wanted couldn't exist?”
― Kurt Busiek, Marvels

“They were evil! The mutants---they wanted to kill us all! Everybody knew that! Nick Cosgrove and Arthur Lindstrom, out there with their with their guns--They were friends of ours. We played bridge with them. But I knew--They'd burn down this house down and us in it if they knew we were sheltering a mutant. They were that scared. I was that scared. But there was something in in her--in it's eyes----And I couldn't help thinking of the liberation of Auschwitz and the look in their eyes----And---Dear God, Doris----She's just a little girl--!”
― Kurt Busiek, Marvels

“I'm a writer. I just love telling stories."

-Interview with Tasha Robinson, avclub.com February 14, 2001.”
― Kurt Busiek

“They weren't here to win the approval of the petty and the small-minded. They were here to save the innocent.”
― Kurt Busiek, Marvels (1994) #4

“There was a darkness outside reality, they say — a darkness full of things. Hungry, nasty things with no shape or form, not as long as they were out there.”
― Kurt Busiek

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― Kurt Busiek, Arrowsmith (2003-2004) #5