Top 140 Brian K. Vaughan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “The whole point of having enemies abroad is getting to ignore the once back home.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

104. “Why, because you think made-up stories have never resulted in actual casualties? Putting new ideas into another person’s head is an aggressive act, aggressive acts have consequences. Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist, but you can’t be both.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

105. “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

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

107. “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

108. “The only way the dead live on is through the people they leave behind.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

109. “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

110. “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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “Sorry, ladies. I guess that’s our cue. We like to storm into town, inflict maximum damage, and then disappear... like a KISS concert.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

114. “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

115. “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.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

116. “Futur is a threat, not a promise.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

117. “I’ve never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

118. “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

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

120. “Anyone can kill you, but it takes someone you know to really HURT you.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

121. “Grown-Ups are usually guilty of something.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

122. “I’m really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

123. “It’s the stories with no sides that worry them.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

124. “Your moon is always full, android. You Earthlings have such limited perspective.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

125. “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

126. “To try and imagine that I’m another person is always going to be hard – whether I’m writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who’s trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

128. “Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died...”

— Brian K. Vaughan

129. “Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don’t kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

130. “Thirty chapters of good deeds never tells you a whole man’s story.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

131. “By the time they’re out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

132. “Here’s the thing about miscarriage. They are painful, they are horrific, and they are very, very common. There are no funerals for Those Who Might Have Been, leaving parents to mourn their loss in strange and unexpected ways. But while a miscarriage may feel like the end of the world... it’s actually just the beginning of a new one.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

133. “If there’s an opposite of a honeymoon, it’s the week after a couple’s first child is born.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

134. “All you have to do is make a fist. The bullet does the hitting for you”.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

135. “The future is never fair. Just inevitable.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

136. “You and me little buddy... adrift in an ocean of estrogen.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

137. “Granny would never love anyone the way she loved my grandfather, but that doesn’t mean she never loved again.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

138. “A beheadable-yet-fair assessment.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

139. “You keep using that term, ‘the enemy.’ But you taught me that euphemisms are only for those who feel guilt about what they are describing.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

140. “They say it’s the worst pain imaginable, losing a child. But that wasn’t my experience. Don’t get me wrong, my son’s death just about destroyed me. But if I’m being honest, nothing will ever hurt quite so deeply as the moment I heard the first person I ever really loved was gone.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

141. “School taught him how much he loved being home.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

142. “Art has no responsibility except to be art.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

143. “Rest assured, when the game is over, the queen and pawn go back into the same box.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

144. “We’re all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time. Usually associated with invasions, abductions, or other hostile acts, the term “alien” gets a bad rap. But over the years, the word has come to mean something very different to me... future friend material.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

145. “Bro, all you’ve got is a book. How do you plan to fight our parents? With literacy?”

— Brian K. Vaughan

146. “Death is just a chapter break in a never-ending tale, Nico.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

147. “Thanks, but I don’t need the Afterschool Special talk. Sounds like I’ve got, what, three or four years left? That’s a fuckin’ eternity.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

148. “With little power comes little responsibility.”

— Brian K. Vaughan