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1 " I'm a writer. I just love telling stories."-Interview with Tasha Robinson, avclub.com February 14, 2001. "
― Kurt Busiek
2 " 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. "
3 " 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
4 " 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
5 " 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 help? "
― Kurt Busiek , Astro City, Vol. 2: Confession
6 " 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. "
7 " 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? "
8 " 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
9 " 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. "
