“Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
Peter S. Beagle
“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
Frank Miller
“The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.”
Albert Einstein
“All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
Maya Angelou
“Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.”
Oscar Wilde
“Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
