Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

Some things get clearer as you look back on them.

We have to learn from the past.

I learned from my past.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

The good old days are now.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would agree that when you look back on it, those times are well remembered.

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

It's 33 years since we drew Wham! to a close and a lot of people's perspectives have changed and a lot of the rough edges have been knocked off.

The older you get, the more you've done.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Yesterday is just a memory.