Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Having children changes your outlook 100 percent of your life.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it's changed me a lot.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

Everyone who has kids that you talk to tells you, 'Wait until you have kids. It's going to change you.' You're like, 'Nah, come on. How can it change you that much?' But it changes you so much.

My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.