“Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”
“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”
“It is necessary to keep in mind both the trustfulness born of desperation, and the power we invest in the things we hold dear.”
“Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.”
“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”
“People often belittle the place where they were born.”