A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

Stay crunchy, even in milk.

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

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

More is more and less is a bore.

I would put Flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.