Quotes from Joss Whedon

I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma...I don't have any claws.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Don't go bigger, go deeper.

Be brave. Live.

Passion is the source of our finest moments… If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

Live each day as if it were your last, 'cause I'm gonna kill you but I'm not super-good w/schedules

Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough - from Firefly

Life's not a song. Life isn't bliss, life is just this. It's living. You'll get along. The pain that you feel can only heal by living. You have to go on living. So one of us is living.

I'm sorry if he's bleeding internally. I hope he's not. But I'm not wasting a healing spell on a guy that pointed a gun at us." "Can you do an 'I'm sorry' spell? I don't wanna get too near him." "It's not the Staff of Hallmark, Mol.

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it. ~Spike~

Home. Home is just a word. Thin on meaning. It's a word that can hold you hostage, keep you from living your life.

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

I write to give myself a strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

I'm disgusted when I see some old guy with a younger woman. Or a younger guy with a younger woman. Just couples. Or groups. Any person.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

I just thought, 'Wait a minute, if I'm going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I've ever been in my life. … It's like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It's like, 'Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just…I have to…It's super important for my law!

Whatever makes you weird is probably your best asset.

Malcolm: So me and mine gotta lay down and die... So you can live in your better world? Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there... any more than there is for you. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it. But it must be done.

It is not so bad. It is just, when I come home so tired, and then he… I do not enjoy it. My… my marital duties. Oh, my God… He makes you do chores?!?

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

It's not about making money; it's about taking money. Destroying the Status Quo. Because the Status is not Quo!