In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

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.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?

Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

The young are always in extremes.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.