Quotes from Joss Whedon

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

Misogyny… 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 is confronted with it.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

"Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.