Joss Whedon
Time for some thrillin' heroics.Collection: Firefly
Stay crunchy, even in milk.Collection: Milk
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longingCollection: Longing
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.Collection: Baby
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friendCollection: Disclaimers
You have, which is a rare thing, the ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. To at least give it the floor. Because it is the key, not only to consciousness, but to real growth.Collection: Responsibility
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.Collection: Strong
Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.Collection: Logic
Let's put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.Collection: Believe
In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?Collection: Men
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 my mom you wouldn't ask'.Collection: Mom
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, "When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't."Collection: Growing Up
Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.Collection: Firefly
I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.Collection: People
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.Collection: Fiction
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.Collection: Clever
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.Collection: Writing
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.Collection: Beautiful
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.Collection: Fall
Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.Collection: Pain
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.Collection: Two
Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.Collection: Being Yourself
You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.Collection: Different
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful menCollection: Powerful
I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.Collection: Halloween
I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.Collection: Calm
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.Collection: Believe
My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.Collection: Heart
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.Collection: Believe
If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.Collection: Believe
I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!Collection: Steel
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.Collection: Logic
You can't take the sky from me.Collection: Freedom
I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots-? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies! ...or maybe midgets.Collection: Cute
Shiny, let's be bad guys!Collection: Firefly
I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.Collection: Children
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.Collection: Different
Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.Collection: Compassion
Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.Collection: Thinking
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.Collection: Writing
Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.Collection: Dragons
I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.Collection: Different
How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.Collection: Dna
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.Collection: Writing
When you see these characters like Captain America or Thor, laughing at their own situation or about how strange they are, then you are able to accept more readily that it's fine to wear a cape. You can also accept that it's fine to be enormous and green, or to shoot arrows at aliens racing through the sky. It all makes sense if you've been able to laugh at it and with it.Collection: Character
You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.Collection: Jobs
I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.Collection: Dark
I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.Collection: Dream
Love is for children. I owe him a debt.Collection: Children