Quotes from Brian K. Vaughan

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...

No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.

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.

I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do

Damn. How much time did you spend in the library? "I am a library.

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

Natalya: It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments.

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 next morning, they cremated my grandfather in the belly of our ship. I still have a scarp of the outfit he made for me. These days, I use it as a bookmark.

Come back with a healthy monkey, or don't come back at all.

It doesn't take a village to raise children; it takes a whole galaxy - former friends, random acquaintances, complete strangers... even other children.

You never know when or where your first addiction might find you…but there's a chamber of your heart that will have been waiting for it since the day you were born

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. The happiest families I ever met were all frayed...but they were also tighter than a hangmen's noose. - Hazel, Saga # 40

As they emerge, the creatures beneath those fragile shells begin to understand that they possess more agency than they ever dreamed.

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.

Art has no responsibility except to be art.

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

Some general advice about writing: WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable. Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often essential : in self-defense, the arts foreplay... Hazel: I want to four-play!

You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.

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.

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

Because I don't want my final days in this universe to be filled with pity and sorrow. I want to spend this time doing what I like best for the people I care about most." "But… you don't even know me." "Maybe not, but lord do you ever talk in your sleep. It's clear you love my boy very much.

We are small, but the universe is not.