"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" Quotes

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The world was changing so fast, so unpredictably. No one could know what would happen next.

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indelible imprint of the one who broke them. But that is not true. Our hearts are resilient. With time, they heal, and we fall in love again.

The greatest trick of the magician is to make you believe that the impossible is possible.

There is something inherently valuable in the idea of a hero who is flawed, who is human, and who struggles to do what is right.

It is not the absence of fear that makes us brave, but the ability to persist in spite of it.

A life spent creating is a life worth living.

Sometimes, the only way to find your voice is to lose it.