Quotes from Brian K. Vaughan

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.

It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

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

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

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

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

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

There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you - and that your publisher will still exist.

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

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

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

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.

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?

The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either.

Sooner or later, every last echo fades. Even the loudest thunder in the deepest valley.

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

Good night, chubby baby I can't rock you no more I'm sorry, chubby baby But my arms are getting sore Sleep tight, chubby baby And please don't get me wrong You're a perfect sized baby So never accept fakey beauty standards or develop unhealthy body issues... ... from this dumb song

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.

Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home. Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.

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

You have to be brave before you can be good.