Quotes by Brian K. Vaughan

Ask a childs 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.

Youre the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, Im telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so--Lying.How have you not murdered that creature by now?Oh, Ive tried.

The Governments supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.And everything awful used to be something good.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes dont kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life—like one hundred percent blissful—is when we’re little kids.Because there’s less to worry about?Because we’re too stupid to know how worried we should be.

It would be a very long time before we saw any of our original pursuers again. At least, it seemed kinda long. But nothing warps time quite like childhood. I remember visits to faraway worlds that lasted only a few days but felt like entire lifetimes. And then there were the endless journeys between destinations that somehow went by in the blink of an eye. You know how it goes.

Ciba: I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every night?Natalya: You know what this shiny piece of tin is, you fucking space cadet? Its the way stupid boys trick other stupid boys into dying for bullshit causes ... and Im done acting like one of them.

Youre right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesnt mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.

Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country.Dont sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didnt miss shit.

Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. Ive got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.!

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

Im not going to stand here and be eaten by some bitchs dinosaur. I am finally doing something with my life.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

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

“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”