Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.

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.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

Embracing failure is the stepping stone to success

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Beauty is a radiance that orginates from within.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.