"After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well."

-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Writing Quotes #Leader Quotes #Political Quotes

“Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.”
“A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.”
“I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.”
“Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.”
“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”
“Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?”
“Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.”
“A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.”

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