Brian K. Vaughan Quotes - Page 2

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

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

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

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.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

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

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

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

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

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.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

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.