Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

The real world is not in one direction.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.