Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

This lost boy got fly without Peter Pan

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

Sometimes as a boy, you really want to feel older and mature.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

I love what I do, but living in one place for an entire year and not being on the road constantly was glorious. The road lifestyle is not ideal for a woman who's about to be thirty.

I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

I'm a big kid.

Growing up was very difficult.

I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.