Every day’s a negotiation and sometimes it’s done with guns.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, ‘How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?’ I said, ‘If you met...

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past...

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that question.”[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it’s the hardest thing to do.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

I can reverse the polarity of your ions!” Like in one big flash everybody’s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don’t understand anything...

You’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save...

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you’re homeless and depressed But...

If you can’t do something smart, do something right.

Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there’s no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters… , then all that matters is what we do. ‘Cause that’s all there...

You either have to write or you shouldn’t be writing. That’s all.

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they might stop telling you that a little bit. Whatever you think of the movie, it’s done a great...

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don’t… I don’t know.” “Well, what’s different?” “Well, I guess I was kinda new to being around humans...

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft… behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,’tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty…Effulgent.

I am a leaf on the wind – watch how I soar

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful… a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had...

Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honoured… Because equality is not a concept....