Top 140 Brian K. Vaughan Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

52. “Because I’m not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn’t have loved me if I was. I realize that now.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

53. “I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

54. “Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

55. “So what? He’s good to you and Hazel now, isn’t he? Who cares if he’s got history with some other broad?”

— Brian K. Vaughan

56. “You are unlike anyone has ever existed, and that makes you exactly like everyone who has ever existed.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

57. “I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you’re going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

58. “Teachers always promise that students are in a “safe place,” but most of us figure out that’s a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

60. “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. But what happens when those people disappear from our lives?”

— Brian K. Vaughan

61. “Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist. But you can’t be both.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

62. “Each of us has been falling apart since day one, Chase. We just have to find a way to fall apart together.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

63. “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

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

65. “I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

66. “And the two heavenly bodies danced around their star...”

— Brian K. Vaughan

67. “Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we’re right. But only if we’re very very strong.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

68. “Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what’s impossible.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

69. “Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I’m not necessarily opposed.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

71. “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

72. “Gert: Wake me when the fight scene’s over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I’m Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

73. “We are small, but the universe is not.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

74. “Most of the time, we don’t even realize we’ve live through something worth commemorating until long after it’s already ended.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

75. “My parents told me to be careful of you. That’s how I knew you were the onyly one of us we could trust with our lives.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

76. “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

77. “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

78. “Life is stupidly short. Why not enjoy the last act?”

— Brian K. Vaughan

79. “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.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

81. “If there’s an opposite of a honeymoon, it’s the week after a couple’s first child is born. No matter how hard they try, no matter how pure their intentions... Everything will go wrong. And that’s when the gawkers show up. From far and wide they come to inspect the hapless new parents. The nice ones bring food.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

82. “I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It’s not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...”

— Brian K. Vaughan

83. “Break the rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn’t want to have an adventure?”

— Brian K. Vaughan

84. “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

85. “Comics brought me to the dance. It’ll always be my first loyalty.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

86. “Every kid gets “programmed” by their ’rents, Chase. That doesn’t mean they have to do as they’re told.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

87. “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

88. “Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

90. “Whoever said you can’t have a revolution without the French should be guillotined.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

91. “You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

93. “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

94. “A lot of people who came into my family’s life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

95. “I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

97. “Dude, your husband is gonna die!”

— Brian K. Vaughan

98. “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

99. “Every culture in the universe has a very different opinion about exactly when life begins. But we’re all pretty much in agreement on when it’s over.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

100. “Though we can never guarantee our people complete safety, we can send a message to those who seek to harm the free and the brave. You might knock us to the ground but you sure as hell won’t keep us there.”

— Brian K. Vaughan