Brian K. Vaughan

Quotes

• “All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with ...”
• “Ciba: "I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every nig...”
• “My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I ...”
• “Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE. Pa...”
• “How is it possible that our parents lied to us?""Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the p...”
• “You're the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I'm telling...”
• “I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film schoo...”
• “It doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about...war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're...”
• “I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life—like one hundred percent blissful—is when we’re little ki...”
• “The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literall...”
• “Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country.""Don't...”
• “When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape...”
• “Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I realized fighting wou...”
• “Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I've got more officers who speak Arabic in one precin...”
• “I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids ju...”
• “My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and ever...”
• “You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anes...”
• “Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly se...”
• “Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very stro...”
• “That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imaginati...”
• “Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.”
• “Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.”
• “Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.”
• “Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.”
• “Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.”
• “Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.”
• “But nothing warps time quite like childhood”
• “Well, I've always wanted to call my son”