Quotes from Brian K. Vaughan

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.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

I remember when I was a kid and I would go to the comic-book store, I would have no idea what was going on in that month's issues. Sometimes I wouldn't even know what comics were coming out until I walked into the store.

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

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 don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

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

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

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.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

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.