No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.

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.

Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.