Time & Perspective Quote by Bob Kane

Twenty-five years is a long time to be asked to remember cleanly, especially when the stakes are reputation and ownership. Bob Kane’s line has the soft sound of nostalgia, but it functions like a legal shield: a polite fog machine. “Truthfully” signals candor even as it undercuts certainty, and “sometimes” keeps the escape hatch open. He isn’t claiming amnesia; he’s claiming plausible imprecision.

The subtext is about control over a story that has outgrown its maker. Kane, best known as the credited creator of Batman, lived inside one of pop culture’s most contested origin myths, with decades of dispute around authorship and the sidelining of collaborators like Bill Finger. In that context, “time blurs the memory” reads less like a human frailty than a strategic repositioning. When details get inconvenient - who contributed what, who decided which elements, who deserved credit - the past can be made to look naturally out of focus, as if history itself is the culprit.

It’s also an artist’s way of recasting criticism as unfairness. If memory is inherently unreliable, then interrogation becomes a kind of bad faith: you’re demanding precision the speaker can’t ethically provide. Kane’s phrasing gently asks the listener to accept ambiguity as maturity. The irony is that cultural memory around Batman has sharpened over time, not blurred - fans, historians, and archives have gotten clearer. This sentence tries to reverse that trend, turning the passage of years into exoneration rather than evidence.