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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

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

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

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

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

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

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

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.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

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

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.

I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.

It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

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.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

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

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

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.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

People just want good stories.

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

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?