Quotes from Brian K. Vaughan

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

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short. If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit... the least you can do is try to forgive them.

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.

If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.

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

You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.

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

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

In the beginning, love is mostly about lying to each other. It's like that in the end, too.

The more you care about someone, the more likely it is that your eventual parting of ways will be as sudden as it is baffling.

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

Honey girl, I don't care what you do, as long as you're kind to everyone you meet." "That's it?" " That is the hardest part of being alive.

We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.

If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.

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

My name is Hazel. 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... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old. Not everybody does.

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.

A child isn't a symbol, it's a child! It needs applesauce and, and, and playpens and an ass-load of other things we can't provide while we're on the goddamn lam! Just to be clear. Your exact words to me were: "Please shoot it in my twat." Yeah. I know.

People just want good stories.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.