Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

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.

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

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

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

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

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

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

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

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

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.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

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

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

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

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.