Brian K Vaughan Quotes

Welcome to Abortion Town! ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home.
Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Together, my parents had learned to be much more than "the sum of their parts", whatever that means.
Separately, they were kind of just a mess. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Life is stupidly short. Why not enjoy the last act? ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

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 anesthetizing crap. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literally the only thing I'd change. I'd stop being so afraid of other people. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

It's the stories with no sides that worry them. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I guess i'm just haunted by all that potential energy. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Gert: What ... what just happened?
Chase: I don't know, but guess who totally stole Cookie Monster's glasses!
Gert: Whew, for a second there, I was worried we almost learned something.
Chase: Ooo, look at me! I'm a big fluffy nerd! ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Some people hate waiting, but not me. Without anticipation, life can be comfortable, but it'll never be thrilling. Instant gratification is for boring assholes. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.
Kids just have an easier time with words. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Granny used to describing giving your life as "ultimate sacrifice", but I don't know about that. Dying is definitely the LAST sacrifice you can make, but sometimes, it's your first one that sets the tone for everything that follows. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree? ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Anticipation and dread aren't opposites, just different versions of the same game. Both involve knowing that something is going to happen, but not knowing when. And whether you end up winning or losing, you at least get to reach a conclusion. There's always some comfort in that. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius! ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back."
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"You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine."
"Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus."
"You're not the brain, by the way. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

But you have gift!"
"Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

It would be a very long time before we saw any of our original pursuers again. At least, it seemed kinda long. But nothing warps time quite like childhood. I remember visits to faraway worlds that lasted only a few days but felt like entire lifetimes. And then there were the endless journeys between destinations that somehow went by in the blink of an eye. You know how it goes. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Rock beats scissors, bitch. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Every kid gets "programmed" by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Here's a list of some of the folks who have written Swamp Thing over the years: Alan Moore, Len Wein, Scott Snyder, Brian K Vaughan, Joshua Dysart, Rick Veitch, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar. That's not even a full list, but you see my point - ol' Swampy has had some seriously brilliant people behind the keyboard in his time. ~ Charles Soule

I've found that cultures often clash for the same reasons that people do. It's not because we're so different from each other... it's because we're all so goddamn alike ~ Brian K. Vaughan

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 not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's share of the suffering. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

The only way the dead live on is through the people they leave behind. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Here's the thing, everybody loves babies ... but only in very, VERY small doses. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

When you're dead set on doing the right thing, sometimes it's hard to recognize that you're doing it in the wrong way. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

The next morning, they cremated my grandfather in the belly of our ship. I still have a scarp of the outfit he made for me. These days, I use it as a bookmark. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I've got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.! ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I write the book for one person - for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Print and digital comics will always coexist. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

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 sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

It was a time of war.
Isn't it always. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

The more you care about someone, the more likely it is that your eventual parting of ways will be as sudden as it is baffling. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Stupid old boys' network ... That's why we're not running the world, huh, girlie? 'Cause when women see a younger version of us, it just makes us angry. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Whoever said you can't have a revolution without the French should be guillotined. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Anyone can kill you, but it takes someone you know to really HURT you. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can so is try to forgive them. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I realized fighting would be way more emotionally satisfying. -Buffy ~ Brian K. Vaughan

The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Every relationship is an education.
Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Faith and science can be friends, but they make for a disastrous marriage. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding? ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?"
Nico: "Try not to die. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess."
"And everything awful used to be something good. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Sooner or later, every last echo fades. Even the loudest thunder in the deepest valley. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Not many people read my stuff, but I really like the ones that do. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I remember when I was a kid and I would go to the comic-book store, I would have no idea what was going on in that month's issues. Sometimes I wouldn't even know what comics were coming out until I walked into the store. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

In the Open Circuit, characters are supposed to have 'arcs,' where they grow and evolve over the course of the story.
But Mom always thought that was nonsense. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' ~ Brian K. Vaughan

A child isn't a symbol, it's a child! It needs applesauce and, and, and playpens and an ass-load of other things we can't provide while we're on the goddamn lam!
Just to be clear. Your exact words to me were: "Please shoot it in my twat."
Yeah. I know. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

But nothing warps time quite like childhood ~ Brian K. Vaughan

With little power comes little responsibility. ~ Brian K. Vaughan