Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

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.

The act of reading is skill that can be cultivated.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.