Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
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"If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa."
"If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean."
"I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies."
"Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world."
"We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another."
"The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity."
"Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea."