Quotes from Brian K. Vaughan

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

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 doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about...war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's share of the suffering.

Because death is fucking predictable... but life has science experiments and free time and surprise naps and who knows what comes next?

Regardless of sex, everyone loses something in a war... but the first casualty is always the truth.

Together, my parents had learned to be much more than the sum of their parts, whatever that means. Separately, they were kind of just a mess.

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.

You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot

They can't hurt us, you big babies! We're intangible! Why are you guys acting like you just died yesterday?

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

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

There's always money in conflict. Says the diehard peacenik? Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.

After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.

capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.

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

Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE. Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy... pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.

Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.

Every relationship is an education.... There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.

Younger writers are always looking for blurbs, one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Belay that fuckery.

There are two kinds of people left in the world, consumers and destroyers. We used to have creators, but they all ran away.

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.

once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword.